Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work

Precarious workers often receive relatively lower wages than those in formal employment. Determining the difference between wages that promote a decent life and the current income received by workers can orient ways of tackling precarious work conditions. In this chapter, we present both the process...

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Main Authors: Teng-Calleja, Mendiola, Bertulfo, Donald Jay M, Clemente, Jose Antonio R.
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.psychology-faculty-pubs-14182024-03-07T08:42:09Z Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work Teng-Calleja, Mendiola Bertulfo, Donald Jay M Clemente, Jose Antonio R. Precarious workers often receive relatively lower wages than those in formal employment. Determining the difference between wages that promote a decent life and the current income received by workers can orient ways of tackling precarious work conditions. In this chapter, we present both the process and results from a study conducted in the Philippines on one of the first weighted psychometric approaches that can be utilized in enriching our understanding of fair income in the context of precarity. Our aims are two-fold. First, we propose a psycho-economic gauge of precarity, which links individual assessments of what constitutes a decent life and the wage level that may enable the attainment of such life. We argue that this alternative approach is important in refocusing the attention to a more worker-centric perspective on the issue of precarity. Second, we make a case for the feasibility of how Human Resource Management practitioners and employers or organizations can greatly contribute to minimizing precarity by ensuring provision of decent work through living wages. We consequently gave suggestions on how organizations can provide fair income to workers through a myriad of strategies that can be considered based on what may work in specific contexts. 2023-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/418 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003440444-10/closing-capability-gap-tackling-precarious-work-mendiola-teng-calleja-donald-jay-bertulfo-jose-antonio-clemente Psychology Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Psychology Social and Behavioral Sciences Social Psychology
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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Philippines
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topic Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Psychology
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Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social Psychology
Teng-Calleja, Mendiola
Bertulfo, Donald Jay M
Clemente, Jose Antonio R.
Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
description Precarious workers often receive relatively lower wages than those in formal employment. Determining the difference between wages that promote a decent life and the current income received by workers can orient ways of tackling precarious work conditions. In this chapter, we present both the process and results from a study conducted in the Philippines on one of the first weighted psychometric approaches that can be utilized in enriching our understanding of fair income in the context of precarity. Our aims are two-fold. First, we propose a psycho-economic gauge of precarity, which links individual assessments of what constitutes a decent life and the wage level that may enable the attainment of such life. We argue that this alternative approach is important in refocusing the attention to a more worker-centric perspective on the issue of precarity. Second, we make a case for the feasibility of how Human Resource Management practitioners and employers or organizations can greatly contribute to minimizing precarity by ensuring provision of decent work through living wages. We consequently gave suggestions on how organizations can provide fair income to workers through a myriad of strategies that can be considered based on what may work in specific contexts.
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Bertulfo, Donald Jay M
Clemente, Jose Antonio R.
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title Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
title_short Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
title_full Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
title_fullStr Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
title_full_unstemmed Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work
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publisher Archīum Ateneo
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url https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/418
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