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Decent Work Principles and Job Quality Criteria to Improve Sustainable and Equitable Well-Being

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The principles of Decent Work inspire today the struggle against poverty and the promotion of an equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. The aim to provide a job for all and the commitment to improve working conditions for every worker are mutually supporting aspects of a virtuous action. Well-being at work and well-being in the whole society are interrelated.

A political and economic system based on decent work principles must guarantee social protection to those that cannot work. It also has to preserve leisure, private life, and lifelong learning of worker and non-workers.

Relationships between working conditions and subjective well-being lie on multiple levels. This article aims to highlight the multidimensionality of the quality of work. It also provides a brief description of the data on actual working conditions, which allows comparing the plausible conditions with the targets assumed under international agreements.

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    In full “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/european-pillar-of-social-rights/indicators/social-scoreboard-indicators

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    European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions is a tripartite European Union Agency, whose role is to provide knowledge to assist in the development of better social, employment and work-related policies

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    ILO defines workers in vulnerable employment as the sum of own-account workers and contributing family workers. They are less likely to have formal work arrangements, and are therefore more likely to lack decent working conditions, adequate social security and ‘voice’ through effective representation by trade unions and similar organizations.

    Vulnerable employment is often characterized by inadequate earnings, low productivity and difficult working conditions that undermine workers’ fundamental rights.

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    Paola Conigliaro

  2. Italian National Institute of Statistics, Rome, Italy

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    Paola Conigliaro

  3. Department of Political Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

    Michela Gnaldi

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Conigliaro, P. (2019). Decent Work Principles and Job Quality Criteria to Improve Sustainable and Equitable Well-Being. In: Bianco, A., Conigliaro, P., Gnaldi, M. (eds) Italian Studies on Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 77. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06022-0_22

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