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Job Crafting: A Challenge to Promote Decent Work for Vulnerable Workers

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Decent Work and the Quality of Work and Employment [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
openaire   +2 more sources

The deficit of decent work as a global problem of social and labor segment [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Economic Policy, 2016
The overview of the current trends in social and labor segment globally and in the Ukrainian economy is provided. The crises in functioning of the social and labor segment as the forms of expression of the deficit of decent work were isolated.
Anatoliy Kolot, Oksana Herasymenko
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Contributions of psychology to rethinking the decent work concept [PDF]

open access: yesRevista 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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Prospects for Decent Work in Services [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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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Participatory Training Activities in South Asia for Promoting Safety and Health in Informal Economy Workplaces—Roles of Trade Unions and Employer Organizations

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work
Workers and employers in the informal economy are often outside the scope of legal frameworks of occupational safety and health (OSH) service in South Asia.
Tsuyoshi Kawakami
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China: Migrant Workers Want ‘Decent Work’

open access: yesThe Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, 2009
China now has a second generation of rural-to-urban migrant workers. An estimated eighty percent of these workers were born in the 1980s or after. Many of these young workers are unwilling to follow their parents in acquiescing to dirty, exhausting ...
Kate Hannan
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European Environment, Social, and Governance Norms and Decent Work: Seeking a Consensus in the Literature

open access: yesSocial 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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Decent Work, Standards and Indicators [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Recently, there has been an effort to construct more qualitative indicators to measure international labour standards. These indicators include grading by experts, coding of legislation and other textual sources. This paper uses normative indicators to construct country profiles that help to map progress towards decent work.
Zarka-Martres, Monique   +1 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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