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SMARTer indicators for decent work in a post‐2015 development agenda: A proposal
Author(s) -
OSTERMEIER Martin,
LINDE Sarah,
LAY Jann,
PREDIGER Sebastian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international labour review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.433
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1564-913X
pISSN - 0020-7780
DOI - 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2015.00035.x
Subject(s) - interpretability , work (physics) , poverty , economics , developing country , labour economics , value (mathematics) , demographic economics , economic growth , statistics , engineering , mechanical engineering , machine learning , computer science , mathematics
The MDG employment indicators suffer from major shortcomings, including measurement problems, inappropriate use of aggregate statistics, ambiguous interpretability, and assumptions that do not apply to developing countries. Based on this critique, the authors propose a new set of four indicators for productive employment and decent work, namely: the growth of labour value added per worker, the working poverty rate, the share of workers receiving less than an absolute minimum labour income, and the share of workers receiving less than 60 per cent of the median labour income. They demonstrate the empirical application of these indicators using the country cases of Uganda and Peru.