Šis Pārskats par Latviju ir piektais pētījums, kas publicēts šajā sērijā. Tajā ir apskatīta aktīvās darba tirgus politikas attīstība un panākumi Latvijā kopš 2012. gada, kad Latvijas darba tirgus ...sāka atgūties pēc īpaši smagajām sekām, ko bija izraisījusi globālā finanšu krīze. Ziņojumā izvērtē izvēlētu aktivizācijas pasākumu panākumus Latvijā, īpašu uzmanību veltot pasākumu izvērtējumam, kas orientēti uz bezdarbnieku apmācību, mobilitātes un uzņēmējdarbības atbalstu Latvijas reģionos un algu subsīdijām Latvijas neaizsargātākajām grupām.
Contingent Work Barker, Kathleen; Christensen, Kathleen
06/2019
eBook
The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work-an umbrella term for a variety of ...tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view.
Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.
The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work-an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view. Articulating a variety of perspectives from various disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.
The aims of the present study were to: 1) gain insight into reasons for working beyond the statutory retirement age from older workers' perspectives, and 2) explore how the domains of the research ...framework Study on Transitions in Employment, Ability and Motivation (STREAM) can be applied to working beyond retirement age.
A qualitative research design included individual interviews (n = 15) and three focus groups (n = 18 participants) conducted with older workers aged 65 years and older continuing in a paid job or self-employment. Interview participants were recruited from an existing STREAM cohort study. Focus group participants were recruited from companies and employment agencies. The data were subjected to thematic analysis.
The most important motives for working beyond retirement age were maintaining daily routines and financial benefit. Good health and flexible work arrangements were mentioned as important preconditions. The themes emerging from the categorization of the motives and preconditions corresponded to the domains of health, work characteristics, skills and knowledge, and social and financial factors from the STREAM research framework. However, our analysis revealed one additional theme-purpose in life.
This study offers important new insights into the various preconditions and motives that influence working beyond retirement age. In addition, the five domains of the STREAM research framework, including the additional domain of 'purpose in life', seem to be applicable to working beyond retirement age. This knowledge contributes to the development of work-related interventions that enhance older workers' motivation to prolong their working lives.
This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that depends on their labor to maintain its ...status as a world economic leader. Drawing upon historical materials, survey and statistical data, and extensive interviews in Japan, Mary Brinton provides an in-depth and original examination of the role of gender in Japan's phenomenal postwar economic growth.
Brinton finds that the educational system, the workplace, and the family in Japan have shaped the opportunities open to female workers. Women move in and out of the workforce depending on their age and family duties, a great disadvantage in a system that emphasizes seniority and continuous work experience. Brinton situates the vicious cycle that perpetuates traditional gender roles within the concept of human capital development, whereby Japanese society "underinvests" in the capabilities of women. The effects of this underinvestment are reinforced indirectly as women sustain male human capital through unpaid domestic labor and psychological support.
Brinton provides a clear analysis of a society that remains misunderstood, but whose economic transformation has been watched with great interest by the industrialized world.
General life satisfaction in Slovenia has not changed significantly since the outbreak of the epidemic, followed last year by increasing international/geopolitical and energy uncertainties, ...exacerbated effects of climate change (drought and wildfires), and rising inflation. In 2021, both economic activity and employment were at high levels, so in the summer of 2022, respondents did not yet perceive any deterioration of the economic situation in the country (while in the EU as a whole a significant deterioration was perceived) (Figure 34). ...the measures taken before the elections in the first quarter of 2022 also contributed to higher satisfaction, and with the elections and the new government, so did post-election optimism. According to the survey data, in mid-2022 the percentage of people in Slovenia who were satisfied with their employment situation and the financial situation of households was higher than ever before (Figure 35), which reflects favourable labour market conditions (see p. 20).
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