Social Quality and Work: What Impact Does Low Pay Have on Social Quality?
Social Quality and Work: What Impact Does Low Pay Have on Social Quality?
复制标题
社会质量和工作：低工资对社会质量有什么影响？
作者：
M. Tomlinson;A. Walker;L. Foster
摘要本文采用实证因子分析模型，结合英国家庭跟踪调查（BHPS），首次将社会质量的概念应用于英国的一个数据集。社会质量关注社会或社会关系的质量，包括理论模型和经过实证检验的一套衡量标准。鉴于越来越多的家庭在工作和贫困中提出的挑战，社会质量是探讨低工资和工作贫困的政策问题。这一分析揭示了几个显著的特点。就贫穷本身而言，贫穷雇员在经济保障、住房、健康、人力资本、信任、自愿性、公民身份、知识和文化方面的境况更差，无论他们属于就业结构的哪一部分。然而，除此之外，即使是那些所谓的劳动力市场上层（需要相当高水平的技能和积极性的专业、管理职业），如果工资低，在这些方面的情况也要差得多。因此，它表明，提高低工资的措施，如生活工资，可能会对社会质量产生相当大的影响。
Abstract Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis models in conjunction with the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) this paper reports the first application of the concept of Social Quality to a UK data set. Social Quality is concerned with the quality of society, or social relations, and consists of both a theoretical model and an empirically tested set of measures. Social Quality is explored in relation to the policy issues of low pay and the working poor given the challenges presented by the rising number of households in work and in poverty. This analysis reveals several striking characteristics. In terms of poverty per se poor employees are worse off in terms of economic security, housing, health, human capital, trust, voluntarism, citizenship, knowledge and culture whichever part of the employment structure they belong to. However, in addition, even those in the so-called upper level of the labour market (professional, managerial occupations which require reasonably high levels of skill and motivation) are significantly worse off on these dimensions if they are low paid. Therefore it suggests that measures to raise low pay, such as the living wage, are likely to have considerable implications for Social Quality.