Research Update: How Decent Wages Transform Qualities of Living—By Affording Escape from Working Poverty Trap

摘要: Research in this journal has suggested that job satisfaction and other attitudes New Zealand undergo a quantitative shift upwards once wages cross pivotal wage range. However, the focus did not extend to actual changes qualities of living beyond work. A fresh analysis additional qualitative responses question, “How well does your work for you?”, from same survey N = 1011 low-income workers across Zealand, content-analysed diverse along spectrum Minimum Living Wage, crossed with household income net own pay (using median as splitting factor). Converging research reported earlier, there was reliable pivot range first rose become transformational after crossing Wage value. This effect most clearly when no buffer any incomes household. further, more idiographic case “outliers” wage-wellbeing curve (lower wage-higher satisfaction, plus higher wage-lower satisfaction) revealed contextual factors moderated mediated living. Examples included acute sense workplace injustice reduced mental wellbeing. Such further inform ILO’s UN’s 2016–30 Decent Work Agenda, which includes justice wellbeing at