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Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2020 Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia L., Elaeagnaceae) is a native multi-purpose medicinal shrub or tree of temperate Asian regions and an integral component of high altitude terraced agroforestry systems of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan.
Muhammad Abubakkar Azmat +4 more
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Decent work, capabilities and flourishing at work
Mental Health and Social Inclusion, 2023 Purpose This study aims to investigate the associations among decent work (DW), capabilities and the flourishing of employees in a South African context. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a convenience sample (N = 436) of early childhood development practitioners from two South African provinces.
Ragadu, Cora Ragadu +1 more
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Prospects for Decent Work in Services [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 We examine how the services sector could provide decent and gainful employment in developing Asia. Using living wages as a reference point, we report that a significant portion of the workforce in developing Asian economies, the majority of which are employed in the agricultural sector, are not living wage earners. On the other hand, manufacturing, and
Khatiwada, Sameer, Flaminiano, John Paul
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Decent Work and the Quality of Work and Employment [PDF]
, 2021 This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.
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Psychologica, 2019 Decent work is a comprehensive concept expressing people’s aspirations for their working lives. This concept has had great legitimacy since it was proposed by the International Labour Organization, the United Nations agency for labour issues, which is ...
Nuno Rebelo dos Santos
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Job Crafting: A Challenge to Promote Decent Work for Vulnerable Workers
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In recent years, the decent work agenda has called upon vocational psychologists to advance psychological research and intervention to promote work as a human right. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic is having disproportionate consequences on vulnerable
Andrea Svicher, Annamaria Di Fabio
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Social work, solidarity economy and decent work
International Social Work, 2023 Eradicating poverty is a fundamental objective of social work, both at local and at global levels. After COVID-19, the United Nations Commission for Social Development and Sustainable Development Goals, the global agenda developed by the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the International Council on Social Welfare and the ...
Antonio López Peláez +3 more
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Career counselling and sustainable decent work: Relationships and tensions
South African Journal of Education, 2020 The concept of decent work is intuitively desirable, an ideal to strive for, and a human right. Awareness of the decent work agenda has been raised in career counselling and is posing challenges about what role, if any, career counselling can play ...
Mary McMahon, Mark Watson
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Social Sciences, 2023 Decent Work is considered essential to the facilitation of a transition to greener, fairer, more prosperous, and more just societies. Decent Work represents a fundamental component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a crucial facet of ...
Agnieszka Dziewulska, Colin W. P. Lewis
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Contributions of psychology to rethinking the decent work concept [PDF]
Revista Psicologia, 2020 Decent work is a generic and universalizing concept based on social and economic factors proposed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Thus, this study aimed to rethink the concept of decent work through the potential contributions from ...
Marcelo Afonso Ribeiro
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