Patterned Inequalities and the Inequality Regime of a Swedish Housing Company
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 In this article, the authors analyze inequalities between different groups of employees at a housing company in a larger Swedish city. The concept of inequality regime is taken as a point of departure. The purposes of the article are three: first, to add
Kristina Boréus, Ulf Mörkenstam
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How do employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration? [PDF]
Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May 2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme on the employability of the participating individuals.
Hujer, Reinhard, Thomsen, Stephan L.
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The Diffusion of Flexibility: Estimating the Incidence of Low-Regulated Working Conditions
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The purpose of this study is to determine the actual occurrences of flexible working conditions and to demonstrate an instrument for their assessment. Flexibility is discussed as a concept and defined in terms of deregulation of work, and a corresponding
Michael Allvin +3 more
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Rehabilitation Counseling in Rural Settings: A Phenomenological Study on Barriers and Supports
, 2019 Rehabilitation counselors working in rural settings encounter unique environmental and placement demands that differ from their counterparts employed in urban vocational rehabilitation (VR) settings.
Connor, Annemarie +3 more
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Unemployment among breast cancer survivors
, 2014 AIM: Though about 20% of working age breast cancer survivors do not return to work after treatment, few studies have addressed risk factors for unemployment.
Ewertz, Marianne; id_orcid +5 more
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Accord on “Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh”: A Breakthrough Agreement?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This discussion aims to review the emergence of the “Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh” signed on May 13, 2013, and evaluate if it is an international agreement “breakthrough”.
Zillur Rahman
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Joint Responsibility at its Peak – Searching for a New Nordic Unemployment Model
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 Earlier research has shown that the Nordic Ghent systems seem to be weakened. The unemployment insurances administered by the unions have experienced a decline in numbers of members, very similar to the drop in trade union membership.
Tora Dahl
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Work and Labor in Slow-Progressive Sectors of the Economy
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In the late 1960s, William Baumol demonstrated that structurally unbalanced growth, with the associated cost disease phenomenon, can be expected to have some very particular effects on work and labor in slow-progressive sectors of the economy: performing
Matti Vuorensyrjä
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance [PDF]
The Ñ“wedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the ...
Barbara Sianesi
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