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List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Production Regimes, Employment Regimes, and the Quality of Work Duncan Gallie 2. Skills and Wages in European Labour Markets: Structure and Change Michael Tåhlin 3. Job-Related Training in Europe: Do Institutions Matter? Martina Dieckhoff, Jean-Marie Jungblut, and Philip J. O’Connell 4. Task Discretion and Job Quality Duncan Gallie 5. Work and Family in Conflict? The Impact of Work Demands on Family Life Stefani Scherer and Nadia Steiber 6. Job Insecurity Serge Paugam and Ying Zhou 7. The Quality of Work Life in Comparative Perspective Duncan Gallie Appendix: Data Sources References Author Index Subject Index List of Figures 4.1. Task discretion and trade union density 5.1. Definition of household employment patterns List of Tables 1.1. Correlations of job characteristics and overall job satisfaction (employees in the EU-15) 1.2. Production regimes and polarization risks 1.3. Employment regimes and polarization risks 1.4. Initial vocational training 1.5. Participation rates of employees in vocational training over one year 1.6. A classification of skills formation systems 1.7. The coordinating strength of labour organizations 1.8. Work integration policies 1.9. Employment integration policies 2.1. Descriptive statistics of all variables used 2.2. Skill requirements of jobs in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.3. Regression of (ln) hourly wages on job skill requirements in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.4. Educational requirements of jobs by class and gender in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.5. Post-entry learning requirements of jobs by class and gender in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.6. Regression analyses of hourly wages (ln) on class and gender in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.7. Educational requirements of jobs by gender, class, industry, and contract in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.8. Post-entry learning requirements of jobs by gender, class, industry, and contract in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.9. Regression analyses of hourly wages (ln) on gender, class, industry, and contract in five European countries, ESS 2004 2.10. Gender segregation of the class structure in four European countries, 1975-2004 2.11. Skill composition of the class structure in four European countries, 1975-2004 2.12. Skill composition of the male class structure in four European countries, 1975-2004 2.13. Skill composition of the female class structure in four European countries, 1975-2004 2.14. Gender differences (female minus male) in the skill composition of the class structure in four European countries, 1975-2004 3.1. Continuing vocational training participation 3.2. Polarization patterns in continuing vocational training participation, 1994 3.3. Polarization patterns in continuing vocational training participation, 2000 3.4. Random-effects models for training incidence, 1994-2000, by country 3.5. Multilevel models of participation in continuing vocational training (pooled sample of individuals in seven countries) 3.6. OLS estimates of returns to vocational training 3.7. OLS estimates of returns to vocational training for men and women 3.8. Average treatment effects—training experience and workers’ wage level 4.1. Task discretion: a comparison of EU countries 4.2. Relative country differences in task discretion 4.3. Britain: employee task discretion, 1992-2001 4.4. Britain: ratios for task discretion scores 4.5. France: task discretion, 1984-98 4.6. France: ratios for task discretion scores 4.7. Germany: task discretion, 1979-99, (%) whose work performance is highly regulated and index of job task discretion 4.8. West Germany: ratios for task discretion scores 4.9. Sweden: influence on planning of own work and on work pace 4.10. Sweden: task discretion index 4.11. Sweden: task discretion index 4.12. Spain: task discretion measures 4.13. Spain: ratios for task discretion scores 4.14. Comparison of net polarization tendencies 5.1. Mean work hours and work stress by occupation, sector, and employment status 5.2. Cross-national differences and institutional background 5.3. Share of working population reporting high levels of WFC 5.4. Country differences and the selectivity problem 5.5. Gender differences in WFC: effect of being female on WFC 5.6. Women’s WFC, probit models with selection correction 5.7. Men’s WFC, probit models with selection correction 5.8. WFC, probit models with selection correction 165 5.9. Weekly work hours and odds of having a work stress, change between 1996 and 2001 5.10. Logistic regression analysis, change in the incidence of WFC between 2001 and 1996 5.11a. Regression test of polarization in WFC across the workforce, women 5.11b. Regression test of polarization in WFC across the workforce, men 6.1. Trends in unemployment 6.2. Country difference in job security 6.3. Means of job security by types of employee, 1996 and 2001 combined 6.4. Effects of job quality on job security by country (without controls) 6.5. Effects of job quality on job security by country (with controls of sex and age) 6.6. Effects of job quality on job security by regime type (without controls) 6.7. Effects of job quality on job security by regime type (with controls of sex and age) 6.8. Percentage of employees in job quality/job security categories by country, 1996 and 2001 combined 6.9. Percentage of employees in job quality/job security categories by employment regime, 1996 and 2001 combined 6.10. Mean levels of job satisfaction across countries 6.11. Percentage in job security/quality categories by types of employee 1996 and 2001 combined 6.12. Percentage in job security/quality categories by types of employee 1996 and 2001 combined 6.13. Odds of being in HS jobs against being in LI jobs by country, 1996 and 2001 combined 6.14. Odds of being in HS jobs against being in LI jobs by employment regime, 1996 and 2001 combined A.1. Sample sizes and response rates in five countries, ESS wave 2, 2004 A.2. ECPH response rates, waves 1 and 2 A.3. Response rates for the EWCS surveys A.4. Eurobarometer Surveys 44.3 and 56.1, sample sizes and response rates A.5. The ISSP ‘Family and Changing Gender Roles’ Module, ISSP 2002 A.6. The BIBB/IAB-Surveys, sample composition and size A.7. The EIB, 1997 and 2001 Skills surveys: sample composition, size, and response rates