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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020 The Swedish public unemployment insurance program is characterized by its governance structure involving union-linked insurance funds, famously known as the Ghent system. This paper argues that the unions’ strongly entrenched interest in the provision of
Jayeon Lindellee
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Forced Flexibility and Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Workers in the Cleaning Industry
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Globalization has resulted in structural changes in the labor markets over the last decades. These changes have weakened some of the economic and social dimensions of work.
Natalia Ollus
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Moving Up the Ladder: Strategies for Economic Independence [PDF]
, 2002 Reports the findings of a statewide conference co-sponsored by the Heldrich Center and Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University, and issues a call for universal support for magnifying public and policy attention on improving how public funds and ...
Denise Balik, Kathy Krepcio
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over almost two decades, young people's employment opportunities have been significantly impacted by events like the Global Financial Crisis (2008–2009) and the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020‐). Thus, underemployment has become a more pervasive and persistent feature of young people's labour market experiences. This research focuses on three forms of
Brendan Churchill
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Informal Practices of Inequality in Recruitment in Finland
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 In this article, we explore the policies and processes of selection and recruitment from the perspective of equality. Focusing on tacit ideas of the ‘ideal worker,’ ideal recruitment, and selection that direct the recruitment process, we examine the ways
Tuija Koivunen +2 more
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Using the Transitional Jobs Strategy to Help Chronically Unemployed Veterans [PDF]
, 2009 One in nine Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was out of work in spring 2009, the unemployment rate of those veterans having risen in the course of a year from 7.2 percent to 11.2 percent -- substantially higher than the 8.8 percent rate for the non-veteran ...
John Bouman, Kalia Coleman
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Analysis of Present Conditions and Prospects of the Labour Market Development in Russia [PDF]
, 2009 The target programs directed on strengthening employees' positions with a high educational level on the labour market are extremely necessary in the Russian conditions.
Volynskyi Vladymir, Zaitzev Victor
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Retention of Staff in Nordic Healthcare— A Literature Review
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesThe Nordic healthcare sector faces severe staff shortages.This paper is based on a rapid literature review, including 73 papers published between 2010 and 2020, addressing retention issues in the sector.The aim is to compile and discuss empirical ...
Fredrik Sjögren, Karolina Parding
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Obesity, Unemployment, and Earnings
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 The article analyses the effects of obesity—a clear signal of weight abnormality—on unemployment and earnings among Finnish men and women. Our empirical data consist of the last four waves (waves 4 to 8) of the Finnish section of the European Community ...
Juho Härkönen +2 more
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