IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/fosoec/v45y2016i2-3p193-212.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Decent Work in Italy: The Basic-Relations-Fairness Proposal

Author

Listed:
  • Martina Lavagnini
  • Antonella Mennella

Abstract

This paper is a contribution to the debate on “decent work,” developed here as an instrument for measuring human development. The concept, conceived by International Labour Organization in 1999 is interpreted here in line with Sen's capability approach. The main idea on which the proposal is based is that work “can be a liberator” [Sen, A. (1999) Development as freedom , Oxford: Oxford University Press] unless working defects prevent that. Elements identified in the basic-relations-fairness proposal are grouped into three profiles that are prioritized into two levels. Working defects are highlighted as a distance from the actual to the desired labor condition; when not possible, good qualities of labor are counted as an approach to the desired situation. The proposal is first presented theoretically, and then the case of Italy is taken as an empirical field of application, using data from different sources. The empirical evidence also portrays the conditions of macro-areas in the different dimensions of decent work. Finally, according to the Contu-De Muro 2012 methodology, a synthetic indicator of decent work dimensions is built by combining basic profile variables.

Suggested Citation

  • Martina Lavagnini & Antonella Mennella, 2016. "Decent Work in Italy: The Basic-Relations-Fairness Proposal," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(2-3), pages 193-212, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:45:y:2016:i:2-3:p:193-212
    DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2014.995198
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/07360932.2014.995198
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/07360932.2014.995198?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mehran, Farhad, & Chernyshev, Igor. & Egger, Philippe. & Ritter, Joseph. & Anker, Richard, & Mehran, Farhad,, 2002. "Measuring decent work with statistical indicators," ILO Working Papers 993622623402676, International Labour Organization.
    2. repec:ilo:ilowps:362262 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Choi, Seonkyung & Li, Huihui & Ogawa, Keiichi, 2023. "Upper secondary vocational education and decent work in Indonesia: A gender comparison," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    2. Flavio Comim, 2021. "A Poset-Generalizability Method for Human Development Indicators," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 158(3), pages 1179-1198, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ritter, Joseph A., 2005. "Patterns of job quality attributes in the European Union," ILO Working Papers 993775093402676, International Labour Organization.
    2. Kucera, David, & Chataignier, Anne., 2005. "Labour developments in dynamic Asia : what do the data show?," ILO Working Papers 993843703402676, International Labour Organization.
    3. Nausheen Nizami, 2019. "Changing Work Organisations and Implications for Decent Work: a Case Study of India’s Information Technology Industry," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 62(3), pages 473-498, September.
    4. Jari J. Hakanen & Petri Rouvinen & Ilkka Ylhäinen, 2021. "The Impact of Work Engagement on Future Occupational Rankings, Wages, Unemployment, and Disability Pensions—A Register-Based Study of a Representative Sample of Finnish Employees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(4), pages 1-19, February.
    5. Sudipta Sarkar, 2021. "Indian Construction Industry: Employment Conditions of Migrant Male Workers of Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 64(2), pages 461-484, June.
    6. Tânia FERRARO & Leonor PAIS & Nuno REBELO DOS SANTOS & João Manuel MOREIRA, 2018. "The Decent Work Questionnaire: Development and validation in two samples of knowledge workers," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 157(2), pages 243-265, June.
    7. PATACHE, Laura & CHIRU, Claudiu & BEBEȘELEA, Mihaela, 2018. "Rural Employment And Decent Work In Romania," Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series, Universitatea Spiru Haret, vol. 18(2), pages 53-62.
    8. Tania Ferraro & Leonor Pais & Nuno Rebelo dos Santos, 2015. "Decent work: An aim for all made by all," International Journal of Social Sciences, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences, vol. 4(3), pages 30-42, August.
    9. Richard ANKER & Igor CHERNYSHEV & Philippe EGGER & Farhad MEHRAN & Joseph A. RITTER, 2003. "Measuring decent work with statistical indicators," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 142(2), pages 147-178, June.
    10. Breeta Banerjee & Amit Kundu, 2020. "Evaluation of Decent Work Index for Informal Workers: An Empirical Study from Hooghly District, West Bengal, India," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 14(1), pages 76-98, April.
    11. Szirmai A. & Gebreeyesus M. & Guadagno F. & Verspagen B., 2013. "Promoting productive employment in Sub‐Saharan Africa : a review of the literature," MERIT Working Papers 2013-062, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    12. David E. Bloom & Mathew McKenna & Klaus Prettner, 2018. "Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization: Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030," NBER Working Papers 24835, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    13. repec:ilo:ilowps:462203 is not listed on IDEAS
    14. Andrew Agapiou, 2010. "Labour Conditions for Construction: Decent Work, Building Cities and the Role of Local Authorities," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(8), pages 897-898.
    15. Mónica Jiménez, 2013. "La informalidad laboral en el sector formal. Un análisis preliminar," Working Papers 10, Instituto de Estudios Laborales y del Desarrollo Económico (IELDE) - Universidad Nacional de Salta - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Jurídicas y Sociales.
    16. Anne Trebilcock, 2005. "Decent Work and the Informal Economy," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2005-04, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    17. William MILBERG & Deborah WINKLER, 2011. "Economic and social upgrading in global production networks: Problems of theory and measurement," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 150(3-4), pages 341-365, December.
    18. Chernyshev, Igor., 2006. "Socio-economic security and decent work in Ukraine : a comparative view and statistical findings," ILO Working Papers 993870323402676, International Labour Organization.
    19. Anker, Richard, & Annycke, Pascal., 2010. "Reporting regularly on decent work in the world : options for the ILO," ILO Working Papers 994484013402676, International Labour Organization.
    20. Sari, Dora Katalin. & Kucera, David,, 2011. "Measuring progress towards the application of freedom of association and collective bargaining rights : a tabular presentation of the findings of the ILO supervisory system," ILO Working Papers 994622033402676, International Labour Organization.
    21. repec:ilo:ilowps:384370 is not listed on IDEAS
    22. repec:ilo:ilowps:377509 is not listed on IDEAS
    23. Serpil ÇİĞDEM, 2019. "Endüstri 4.0 ve Dijital Emek Platformlarının İnsana Yakışır İş Bağlamında Değerlendirilmesi," Journal of Social Policy Conferences, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 0(77), pages 157-199, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:45:y:2016:i:2-3:p:193-212. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RFSE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.