Chasing after “good jobs.” Do they exist and does it matter if they do?
本文从劳动市场理论出发定义好工作为工人能分享剩余的工作，通过实证研究发现好工作确实存在且对整体工资结构有显著影响，并讨论了其对政策制定和社会正义评估的意义。
Abstract Most people believe that there are such things as good jobs —jobs that a worker would consider herself lucky to get. But for economists, the existence of good jobs is debatable. In this paper, I provide a definition of a good job based on various theories of the labour market: a job that involves a surplus captured partly by the worker. I use that definition to guide an empirical investigation of the existence and importance of good jobs . I conclude that good jobs do exist—that the labour market does not just function according to a Roy model with wage differentials reflecting only skill differentials, compensating differentials or bond posting—and that their impact on the overall wage structure is substantial. Finally, I discuss the implications of the existence of good jobs for policy setting and for assessments of the justice of a society.