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Employer Brand Opens up for a Gender Process Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Regardless of a long tradition of legislation, policymaking and practical achievements, the issues ofgender equality and of the segregated labor market still remain a matter of concern in Sweden.
Hans Lundkvist
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Trade Union Responses to Transnational Labour Mobility in the Finnish-Estonian Context
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This article examines trade union strategies in relation to labor migration in Estonia and Finland, drawing on face-to-face interviews with trade unionists and official union statements.
Rolle Alho
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Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Conflict, Care Work, and the Politicization of Caring
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 The article analyzes the phenomenon of “politicization of caring,” observed in studies of nurse labor conflict, in the context of a small-scale episode of conflict at a Swedish hospital ward.
Magnus Granberg
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The Impact of Aging and Age Diversity on Company Performance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 We examine how the age structure of a company's workforce affects company performance. Although, the effect of aging on individual productivity has been analyzed frequently, organizational productivity effects, which are more than the sum of individual productivities, have not.
Backes-Gellner, Uschi, Veen, S
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 Debates on gender equality policy in Sweden assume that women’s labor market participation is central to gender equality and should be promoted via special initiatives and programs.
Elin Kvist, Johanna Overud
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On the role of age diversity for effective aging operators [PDF]
Evolutionary Intelligence, 2011 Aging is a general mechanism that some randomized search heuristics employ to increase the diversity of their collection of search points. A more diverse collection of search points is believed to improve the search heuristic’s performance for difficult problems. The most prominent randomized search heuristics with aging are evolutionary algorithms and
Thomas Jansen 0001, Christine Zarges
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Age Management in Danish Companies: What, How, and How Much?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 This article investigates Danish employers’ behavior in the area of active aging, which is made topical by demographic aging. It describes age management practices and explains why some companies are more prone to employ age management than others.
Per H. Jensen, Rasmus Juul Møberg
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 This paper deals with the working and employment conditions of cleaners with an overview of Sweden but with main emphasis on the Stockholm region. The article is based on a review of previous research, statistics from Sweden, and interviews with cleaners
Saeid Abbasian, Carina Hellgren
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Demographic change is transforming the EU population structure for the coming decades. One challenge that society faces is to preserve social welfare when elderly persons comprise a larger proportion of the total population.
Carin Ulander-Wänman
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Increasingly Equalized? A Study of Part-Time Work in ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Part-Time Work Regimes
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 Recent debates on equalization of part-time work alongside full-time work stress the importance of high quality part-time jobs. This paper compares equalization in banking in three countries: two `old´ part-time work regimes, Norway and Sweden, and ...
Heidi Nicolaisen
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