Job Quality in Europe
The Russell Sage Foundation develops and supports a cross-national
comparison of the quality of lowwage employment in Europe and the United
States.
Having completed an extensive series of case studies of such jobs in the US
in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, Russell Sage now seeks to
commission a collection of comparable case studies for five European
countries: Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United
Kingdom.
The stated aims of the overall project are to compare the quality of
low-wage employment in the US with that found in Western Europe, with
particular emphasis on how the wages and work conditions of low-paid
employees are affected by employer responses to growing competitive
pressures.
Since firms in each country operate in distinctively different
institutional environments, the comparisons should increase our
understanding of how institutional variation affects the strategies adopted
by firms in respect of work organisation, use of new technologies, wage
structures, recruitment, training, career development, subcontracting,
outsourcing and product/service innovation.
The project concentrates on the following industries: Hotels, Retail,
Hospitals, Food processing and Call centers. DTU/AMI is responsible
for the call center part of the research.
Read more about the project
here.
