Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

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Even though in Latvia a slight reduction has occurred in wage earners' influence
in decisions affecting job tasks, there also half of them still have at least
quite good possibilities of exerting influence in this aspect. In Estonia, perhaps
surprisingly, the workers clearly have less power of decision about their job
content than in Latvia and Lithuania. Only 9 % of Estonia's wage earners saw
the possibilities as extremely good. The proportion in the earlier survey was
12 %, and so the fairly low percentage has diminished still further. Unlike
Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia has more wage earners who (calculated as a
combined total) consider their powers of decision as poor, than those who
reckon them as good. The same situation prevails in Finland also.
Private sector
Public sector
Men
Women
under 30 years
30-49 years
50+ years
All
DEGREE OF INFLUENCE ON JOB TASKS
Lithuanian employees
41%
45%
48%
55%
51%
52%
51%
61%
totally rather a lot
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Wage earners in the Lithuanian public sector definitely have more power of
decision in matters relating to their work than the private-sector personnel do.
A little surprisingly perhaps, women have more chance of influence than do
men. Because the public-sector workers have more such possibilities than
those in the private sector, and because a majority of the women work in the
public sector 2 and a majority of the men in the private sector, it could be as-
2 Of the female wage earners surveyed, 58 % worked in the public sector and 41 % in the private
sector. For one per cent, the sector was unknown. As to the men, their proportions were almost the
opposite: 39 % were in the public and 60 % in the private sector. The sector was unknown also for one
per cent of the men.