This paper introduces a new Job QualityIndex that measures the quality of jobs in Turkey over thelast decade. While the main focus is on wage employment –which in 2016 accounts for nearly 73 percent of all workers– the paper also discusses job quality of the self-employedand unpaid family workers. Based on a comprehensivedefinition of what constitutes a good job, the indexconsists of 6 dimensions covering aspects such as adherenceto Labor Law regulations, working conditions, adequatelinkage between wage and job, productive usage andadaptability of skills, career opportunities and employmentresilience. The quality of wage employment improved at theaggregate level from 2009 until 2016; with sharperimprovements in job quality between 2009 and 2012.Improvements are largely the result of compositional changestoward more formal sector wage jobs; yet the distribution ofjob quality remains widespread, across economic sectors,occupational categories and geographic locations. The paperdelves deep into each dimension of a good job and highlightsthe main drivers of good (and bad) jobs in Turkey andidentifies the types of reforms that are needed to enableworkers to benefit from increasing growth while adapting tochanging labor market conditions. Lastly, the findings fromthis paper show that by measuring job quality policymakerscan identify what jobs should be incentivized to ensure thatjob growth is accompanied by job quality.
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