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SUMMARY:The quality of employment (QoE) in nine Latin American countries: 
 A multidimensional perspective - Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London Schoo
 l of Economics)\, Dr Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper proposes a methodology for measuring the quality of
  employment from a multidimensional and public policy perspective in Latin
  American developing countries (Argentina\, Bolivia\, Brazil\, Chile\, Col
 ombia\, Ecuador\, Mexico\, Paraguay\, Peru\, and Uruguay) using household 
 and labour force survey data from 2015. The purpose of this paper is to de
 monstrate that the QoE can be measured using a multidimensional methodolog
 y that can inform policy makers about the state of their labour markets in
  a way that complements traditional variables such as participation or une
 mployment rates\, which are not always good indicators of labour market pe
 rformance in developing countries with large informal sectors.\n\nBuilding
  on the framework of the capability approach as well as on previous work o
 n multidimensional poverty\, we use the Alkire/Foster (AF) method to const
 ruct a synthetic indicator of the quality of employment (QoE) at an indivi
 dual level. We select three dimensions that must be considered as both ins
 trumentally and intrinsically important to workers and the functions and c
 apabilities generated by their employment situation: income\, job security
  and employment conditions. Job security is then divided into two sub-dime
 nsions (occupational status and job tenure)\, as is employment conditions 
 (social security affiliation and excessive working hours). A threshold is 
 then established within each dimension and sub-dimension to determine whet
 her a person is deprived or not within each dimension\, before establishin
 g an overall cut-off line and calculating composite levels of deprivation.
 The results generated by this indicator are\, first\, highly relevant to p
 olicy makers as they allow for the precise identification of groups of vul
 nerable workers as well as of dimensions and indicators\, which contribute
  to deprivation in the labour market. Second\, they extend the debate abou
 t employment in developing countries to variables not commonly considered 
 by the literature as being critical to the well-being of workers and their
  dependents\, such as occupational status and job tenure. Third\, this pap
 er highlights important difference between Latin American countries\, both
  in terms of the overall QoE Index result as well as its component dimensi
 ons. While Chile presents the best results in the region\, Paraguay presen
 ts the worst\, followed by Mexico\, Bolivia and Peru. However\, Chile\, Pe
 ru\, Columbia and Brazil\, for example\, have the biggest problem with job
  rotation. Finally\, the paper highlights that low rates of unemployment a
 re not necessarily related to low rates of deprivation in terms of the QoE
 . In fact\, in some countries analysed (e.g. Mexico) the opposite is true.
 \nSpeakers:\nProfessor Kirsten Sehnbruch (London School of Economics)\, Dr
  Mauricio Apablaza (Universidad del Desarrollo)
LOCATION:Queen Elizabeth House (Seminar Room 2)\, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/a7422c58-46d7-4efd-9dfd-79fb8ae1353f/
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