Structural transformation and implications for future job quality

This Chapter investigates the long-term trends in the reallocation of employment across sectors, and assesses their implications for overall working conditions and employment arrangements. Results show that differences in working conditions are sizeable across sectors, so that employment shifts across sectors have the potential to change the quality of employment. However, improvements along this dimension hinge on the assumption that transitioning workers are able to find jobs with better working conditions, which is by no means guaranteed.