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How good are jobs in New Zealand?
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the New Zealand data in the Work Orientation module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) across three rounds (1997, 2005 and 2015), this paper examines how workers in New Zealand perceive their job quality. These surveys imply that New Zealanders have relativel... view more
Based on an analysis of the New Zealand data in the Work Orientation module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) across three rounds (1997, 2005 and 2015), this paper examines how workers in New Zealand perceive their job quality. These surveys imply that New Zealanders have relatively good jobs, as shown in healthy levels of job quality and job satisfaction. They rate highly the quality of their collegial relationships at work and typically perceive the intrinsic quality of their job as better than the extrinsic quality. A key issue in relation to the latter is that they generally do not rate their advancement opportunities as high. While men, full-timers and graduates have some advantages over women, part-timers and non-graduates in extrinsic job quality, the intrinsic quality of work is more evenly experienced. In terms of intrinsic issues, the rising level of stress from 2005 to 2015 poses a concern and there is no evidence that graduates enjoy any kind of premium in the intrinsic quality of work apart from a lower level of hard physical effort.... view less
Keywords
ISSP; New Zealand; work satisfaction; labor; quality; gender; employment situation; education; job
Classification
Working Conditions
Free Keywords
ISSP 1997; ISSP 2005; ISSP 2015
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 51-67
Journal
New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, 46 (2021) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/nzjer.v46i1.50
ISSN
1179-2965
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed