Sociology 2145B Lecture 5: Job Quality Class 4

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No universal criteria for determining what makes a job (cid:498)good(cid:499) or (cid:498)bad(cid:499) Personal decisions shaped by quantity and quality of jobs available. Individuals match job rewards with needs, preferences, and ambitions. e. g. , pay, benefits, security. Ideal job for many canadians = full time, full year, and permanent, with steady income and security. The way that it is decreasing is very slow. Women tend to be employed in lower skilled labour areas or service jobs distorted from reality for this reason. When you look at the wage gap it is an average so it is slightly. The wage gap isn"t necessarily as high as . (cid:889)(cid:882) as it seems. Gender wage gap: decreasing but not significantly. Incomes in service industries typically less than in goods- producing industries. But significant variations within industries, across occupational groups. Higher weekly earnings for upper-tier service workers (e. g. , professionals in business and finance) compared with lower-tier workers (e. g. , chefs and servers)

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