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Quality in work and aggregate productivity
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We explore the relationship between quality in work and aggregate productivity in regions and sectors. Using recent Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001-2006, we find that quality in work may be an important factor to explain productivity levels in sectors and regions. We use two alternatives definitions of quality in work: one from survey data and the other from a social indicators approach. We also use two different measurements of labour productivity to test the robustness of our results. The estimates are run using a simultaneous equation model for our panel of data, and find important differences between high tech and low tech sectors: a positive relationship between quality in work and productivity in the former case, and a negative relationship in the latter. Consequently, on the one hand we see that quality in work is not only an objective per se, but may also be a production factor able to increase the wealth of regions; on the other hand, at the aggregate level, we may also find that high productivity levels coincide with lower quality in work conditions.
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ROYUELA MORA, Vicente and SURIÑACH CARALT, Jordi. Quality in work and aggregate productivity. IREA – Working Papers. 2009. Vol. IR09/01. ISSN 2014-1254. [consulted: 9 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/61384