this chapter has been produced with the financial and substantive assistance of the european union as part of the oecd project defining measuring and assessing job quality and its links to labour market performance and well being vs s the contents of this chapter are the sole responsibility of the oecd and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the european union this project is a joint undertaking between the oecd directorate for employment labour and social affairs and the oecd statistics directorate and it runs until september the project also encompasses chapter of the employment outlook and chapter of this publication