Measuring and operationalizing job quality in Egypt
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2009
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Population Council, Cairo, EG
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This paper defines and measures job quality for both wage and non-wage workers and investigates the worker and enterprise-specific determinants of job quality. Although findings show that on the whole job quality appears to have declined in Egypt over the 1998 to 2006 period, it has in fact increased among wage and salary workers in the private sector, most noticeably among workers in microenterprises. The overall decline can be partially attributed to measurement issues related to non-wage workers, as well as to a compositional shift of the workforce away from what has been considered high-quality public sector employment.
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PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC SECTOR, EGYPT, WAGE EARNERS, INFORMAL SECTOR, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, LABOUR MARKET, GENDER ROLES, MENA, NORTH OF SAHARA, MIDDLE EAST, EMPLOYMENT