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This timely book expertly analyses the persistence of gender inequalities in work. Despite the progress made through frameworks regulating work and employment relations, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated gender divides in labour markets. The authors present innovative ways to promote gender equality in a variety of industrial relations systems, welfare state models and labour market sectors.
Sinopsis Buku ini menganalisis dampak Covid-19 dan Penanaman Modal Asing, bagaimana hal ini memiliki dampak pada tingkat kesempatan kerja di Indonesia. Penelitian bertujuan, apakah tingkat kesempatan kerja berpengaruh pada periode Covid-19. Guncangan perekonomian yang disebabkan oleh pandemi berbeda dengan perang, dimana pandemi tidak melibatkan penghancuran modal, lebih kepada tingkat kematian pada segmen populasi produktif. Penelusuran kebijakan mengenai signifikansi pertumbuhan pada sektor ekonomi di periode Covid-19 akankah diikuti oleh tingkat kesempatan kerja di sektor ekonomi tersebut.
This open-access book offers a comparative analysis of changes in employment structures on a global scale, focusing on employment trends during the first decades of the 21st century across 17 developed and developing economies, including countries from Europe, North America, Central and Latin America, and Asia. The authors examine patterns of occupational change in all cases, with job upgrading and polarization being the most prevalent, and explore the factors driving these changes, such as technological change, the increased participation of women, the growth of service-oriented sectors, and others. Particular attention is given to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment. By applying consistent methods across all countries, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of employment dynamics and trends worldwide, representing one of the most significant efforts to produce comparative evidence on a global scale to date. As such, it will be of interest to researchers and policymakers focused on labor, inequality, and economic development.
Zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum des Österreichischen Instituts für Bildungsforschung (öibf) erscheint ein vielfältiger Sammelband mit fünf Schwerpunkten: 1. Spannungsfeld zwischen Berufsbildungsforschung und Politik, 2. politikgeleitete Forschung und forschungsgeleitete Politik, 3. Forschungsfelder und Theorieansätze, 4. Zukunftsthemen Validierung, Qualifikationen und Digitalisierung, 5. Wissensbilanz 2020. Die Beiträge stammen von Mitarbeiter:innen des Instituts sowie Autorinnen und Autoren aus nationalen und internationalen Kooperationen. Das öibf wurde 1971 als erste außeruniversitäre Forschungseinrichtung im Feld der damals noch jungen Disziplin der Berufsbildungsforschung gegründet.
This highly readable and authoritative book on the social economics of job quality comes at a critical time as policy-makers, employers and unions seek to rebuild jobs after the economic crisis. The team of authors are leading experts on European employment trends and policy and have produced an excellent study that proposes a new index of job quality for Europe. Given its depth and breadth of coverage of theory and already existing indicators, the book is likely to be a landmark study. Readers will enjoy the engaging review of past and present works of classical political economy and behavioural economics and will benefit from the expert critical appraisal of more than 20 existing proposals...
The book makes a major new contribution to the sociology of employment by comparing the quality of working life in European societies with very different institutional systems--France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Sweden. It focuses in particular on skills and skill development, opportunities for training, the scope for initiative in work, the difficulty of combining work and family life, and the security of employment. Drawing on a range of nationally representative surveys, it reveals striking differences in the quality of work in different European countries. It also provides for the first time rigorous comparative evidence on the experiences of different types of employee and an as...
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This book presents findings and results from the recent European Union Company survey of Operating hours, Working times and Employment (EUCOWE) in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EUCOWE-project is the first standardised company survey covering all sizes of firms and all sectors of the economy. It is the most comprehensive analysis yet published on Operating Hours, Capacity Utilisation, Working Times and Employment in the EU.