Using efficiency, equity, and voice for defining job quality and legal regulation for achieving it

To establish dimensions and measures of job quality, an underlying framework is needed to serve as a guide for identifying what is considered important. Many frameworks are possible. For example, an approach rooted in economic theorizing would identify income and other economic aspects of work as key elements of job quality. The approach in this chapter is to use the objectives of the employment relationship as a framework for crafting dimensions and measures of job quality. In other words, questioning what the employment relationship is intended to produce provides an important framework for identifying the important elements of job quality