Trends in job quality : evidence from French and British linked employer-employee data.

Summary The contribution of this thesis is to examine the evolution of job quality from an establishment perspective. It is based on linked employer-employee data from the comparable Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS 2004 and 2011) for Great Britain and Relations Professionnelles et Négociations d'Entreprise (REPONSE 2005 and 2011) for France. This thesis contains three chapters and adds to three main strands of existing literature. The first chapter explores the impact of establishment-level adjustment practices on job quality in France during the crisis. The second chapter analyzes the role of the institutional regime in France and Great Britain in explaining the variation in job quality between the two countries. Finally, the third chapter examines the strategies adopted by employees to cope with their wages and working conditions.