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The effect of occupational training on employment

Speaker: Álvaro Fernández Junquera Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball This study, financed by the Employment Service of Catalonia, deals with one of the active labor market policies implemented by the

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Active employment policies as an indirect source of social capital among young people with precarious insertion trajectories.

Speakers: Joan Miquel Verd & Joan Rodríguez Soler Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The insertion of young people in the labour market is a constant in the European policy and

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The more you search the less you find: low qualified job seekers and online job search

Speakers: Guillaume Dumont Institution: Centre de Recherche OCE de Emlyon Business School Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed workers, this article explores how low qualified job seekers experience the online job search process. By taking the digitalization of the access

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Dual vet and school-to work transition of young people: the social actors perspective

Speakers: Daniel Barrientos Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball Dual Vocational Education and Training arises in Spain within the European policies about employment and training for young people. However, the lack

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Drivers of Youth Labour Market Integration Across European Regions

Speakers: Rosario Scandurra Institution: researcher Juan de la Cierva of the Department of Sociology of UAB Territorial disparities and youth labour markets have been often considered as separated themes, due to challenges in data availability. Comparative regional or sub-regional research

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Estimating poverty in times of uncertainty: a method for tracking the social-economic effects of the covid19 pandemic

Speaker:  Irene Cruz Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The objectives were threefold. First, a new microdata simulation method is presented for steel nowcasting of disposable income at the individual, family

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Analysis of the gender regimes of political organizations: a comparison according to the degree of institutionalization

Speaker:  Núria Alcaraz Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The objective of this research is to know the effects of the degree of institutionalization of political organizations on the gender relations

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Bargaining in Networks. A Comparative Analysis of Coordination in Collective Bargaining

Speaker:  Òscar Molina Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The analysis of collective bargaining coordination has attracted the attention of scholars and policy-makers since the early 1990s, but has witnessed a

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Changes in the times, changes in jobs: The masculinization of domestic work and the feminization of care work

Speakers: Vicent Borràs & Sara Moreno Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Presentation of the results of an investigation that aimed to analyze the changes in the uses of time, based on the comparative analysis of the two editions of the

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Digitalization in the Retail Sector: a comparative case study between Italy and Spain Industrial Relations’

Speaker:  Arianna Marcolin Institution: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa) In this moment of profound changes of all the aspects of society, also the retail sector has been altered by technological innovations, which have been identified as the spread of omni-channel strategies,

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