If a country performs well on one dimension of decent work, should we expect it to perform well on others?There are some grounds to expect that this is so. However there are patterns. Countries that perform better in improving on social dimensions also tend to have better income distributions and institutional quality than countries that do badly. Thus equality and governance have some role to play in the "observed complementarity" between decent work dimensions. |
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