Author Archives: isabel

The sticky floor of women in the city of Barcelona

The overall objective of this study is to contribute to the analysis of this phenomenon, which determines the everyday experience of many women, in order to improve possible actions on this matter, from the public administration, as well as in

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The role of active employment policies in the development and mobilization of the social capital of young people with vulnerable work paths

The project analyses the impact of youth employment policies, and in particular the active employment policies (AEPs), in the labour trajectories of the most disadvantaged young people, from the point of view of the improvement of its social capital. The

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Books published in 2017

Molina Romo, Óscar & Guardiancich, Igor. (2017). Organising and representing hard-to-organise workers : Implications for Turkey. Geneve: International Labour Organization Guardiancich, Igor & Molina Romo, Óscar (eds) (2017): Talking through the crisis: Social dialogue and industrial relations trends in selected EU

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Articles published in 2017

Alós, Ramon; Beneyto, Pere; Jódar, Pere (2017). Reforma laboral y desregulación del mercado de trabajo. Anuario IET de trabajo y relaciones laborales, Vol. 4,. 73-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/aiet.55 Antentas, Josep Maria (2017). Podemos and the Spanish political crisis. Labor History, 58(4), 468–489.

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Daniel Barrientos Sánchez

Daniel Barrientos Sánchez

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The Social Dimension of Entrepreneurship

Startups have emerged as a promising avenue for the creation of jobs and economic growth, empowered by various kinds of support available to entrepreneurs to help them develop their businesses. Nevertheless, success remains confined to a few, and building a

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Labour market segmentation: Piloting new empirical and policy analyses

This report sets out to describe what labour market segmentation is and why it is problematic for the labour market and society, as well as disadvantaged groups. It takes a broad view of the term to examine the situation that arises when the divergence in working conditions between different groups of workers is attributable to factors other than differentials in human capital levels. Continue reading

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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs – WALQING

In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources,

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Sustainable, social, and local development with employment generation

This research project proposes an alternative hypothesis to local development that will be characterized by an economic process taking into account the new social and ecological needs, which have to be considered in the welfare of our communities. These new

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CURAR ÉS CURRAR. Cuidar i curar entre d’altres feines

2020 – Sara Moreno Roundtable organized by the Palau Robert, coordinated by professor Núria Vergés i Bosch and the poet Mireia Calafell Obiol (La Sullivan), coincided with the exhibition Feminista havies de ser (Feminist you had to be)  View more

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