Urban researchers explore the impact of job quality on the well-being of workers, employers, and communities. This includes examining various job dimensions, such as wages, benefits, safety, autonomy, and worker voice. Researchers also investigate the effects of policies and practices designed to enhance job quality and work to develop more effective methods of measuring job quality.
Recent Analysis and Insights
In recent publications and events, Urban researchers:
- Developed a tool to explore job quality disparities across occupations, race, and gender, drawing from research linking job quality to occupational crowding and segregation.
- Created a framework defining good jobs, assessing how different job quality elements influence mobility.
- Documented the current state of data and approaches to measuring job quality and suggested improvements for researchers and policymakers to better track and understand these trends.
- Summarized what we know about long-standing racial disparities in job quality and their causes as well as outlining possible solutions.
- Explored public and private models for enhanced job quality through greater transparency.
- Outlined government procurement models for job incentives and highlighted unanswered questions.
- Discussed potential policy impacts related to improving job quality dimensions.
More Research
Urban researchers have also created a research agenda for improving job quality:
