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Employment and the workplace

Employment and the workplace. Analysis of unique comparative polling prepared by YouGov plc for Policy Network Fieldwork was undertaken 18-22 March 2011. Total sample size for the online survey was 1063 British, 1086 US, 1010 Swedish and 1184 German adults.

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Employment and the workplace

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  1. Employment and the workplace Analysis of unique comparative polling prepared by YouGov plc for Policy Network Fieldwork was undertaken 18-22 March 2011. Total sample size for the online survey was 1063 British, 1086 US, 1010 Swedish and 1184 German adults. Full poll available at www.policy-network.net Olaf Cramme Director of Policy Network

  2. Unemployment • - Employment aftershock of the crisis: in the two years to Q1 2010, employment fell by 2.1% in the OECD area; unemployment rate increased by just over 50%, to 8.5% (17 million additional unemployed persons) • Structural unemployment: prevalent in many countries pre-crisis • High youth unemployment: Spain 37.9%, France 22.4%, UK 18.9%, Germany 11% (2009) • Stagnant wages for low- & middle-income families • E.g. in the US, from 1973 to 2010, annual incomes of the bottom 90% of families rose by only 10% in real terms; in Germany real monthly incomes fell between 2000 and 2009. • Polarisation between good quality, high-pay and poor quality, low-pay jobs • Persistent gender pay gap (UK: 10.2% for full-time employees) and pressures on family life • Stalled progress on social mobility (Intra- vs inter-generational) Political context

  3. Polling results • The following 3 sets of data show the extent of public pessimism in relation to some of these employment challenges: • The market’s capacity to create jobs and opportunities • Perceptions of the reality of equal opportunities • The promise of higher education • => This plays out in people’s priorities for the workplace

  4. Low estimation of the market’s capacity to provide jobs and opportunities “The market economy is the best way of providing jobs and opportunities to individuals” Percentage selecting as one of the ADVANTAGES of the market economy: Britain21% United States 35% Sweden 24% Germany 15% “Competition keeps prices down” Britain 50% United States 45% Sweden 52% Germany 45%

  5. Pessimism about fair opportunity

  6. The broken promise of education?

  7. The primacy of job security

  8. Job security is more important to women than men • Female Male • Britain 46% 34% • US 41% 30% • Sweden 32% 23% • Germany 46% 32% • Higher basic pay is more important to men • Female Male • Britain 29% 39% • US 29% 32% • Sweden 27% 31% • Germany 25% 30% “Job security matters more to me than any other benefits”

  9. Key political challenges • Is flexicurity still the right approach? • Is there a (new) trade-off between full employment and job security? • Is job quality as much of a problem as unemployment? Is polarisation an unavoidable characteristic of the knowledge economy? • Has the promise of higher education proved unviable?

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