Category Archives: QUIT Seminars 2023

Educational attainment and unstable employment trajectories: an exploration of discordant cases

Speaker: Alejandro González Institution: Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball One of the variables that most influences the labour market trajectory of young people is their educational level. Thus, the labour market trajectories of individuals with

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Adapting to the new times? The emergence of innovative practices in collective bargaining

Speaker: Óscar Molina Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball Presentation of a research report for Eurofound analyzing recent developments and emerging practices in relation to collective bargaining processes and outcomes, mainly in the

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Beyond misclassification: algorithmic management as challenge to the Standard Employment Relationship

Speaker: Tiago Vieira Institution: European University Institute The by and large unregulated presence of algorithmic governance techniques in couriers’ labor process short-circuits what would otherwise be a standard employment relationship, thus undermining the regulatory efforts of the Spanish Government. To a large

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Between control and consent: insights from dark stores into middle managers’ roles and organizational dynamics in the age of algorithmic management

Speaker: Tiago Vieira Institution: European University Institute (Florencia) Last decade’s technological advancements have introduced a major transformation in the world of work: the inception of algorithmic management. While workplace monitoring and assessment through performance metrics are not new, algorithmic management

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Men’s Entry into Paid Care Work: Opportunities and Risks

Speaker: Vicent Borràs & Joan Rodríguez Soler Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The study, commissioned by the Direcció General de Cures, Organització del Temps i Equitat en els Treballs, of

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Employment and wage effects ofminimum wage policy

Speaker: Ferran Elías Institution: Universitat de València Presentation of his research in which he estimates the effect of the minimum wage for the entire wage distribution of workers, using a new empirical approach that is particularly appropriate for national-level changes

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Caregiving in inequality, a comparative analysis of the distribution of unpaid care work in Mexico and Argentina from a gender and legal perspective.

Speaker: Camila Buffarini Institution: Universidad Autònoma de México Her research aims to analyse the convergences and divergences in the current distribution of unpaid care work in Mexico and Argentina, in order to bring together the conceptualisation of the human right

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Illustration of the construction of a multidimensional index with the Urban Vulnerability index

Speaker: Irene Cruz Institution: IERMB The analysis techniques used in the construction of urban vulnerability indices are dominated by dimension reduction strategies, among which principal component analysis (PCA) stands out. Apart from its virtues, such as simplicity and interpretability, PCA

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Stagnant evolution? Theoretical reflections and empirical analysis through the distribution of reproductive work among cohabiting couples in Andalusia

Speaker: María Cascales Institution: Universidad de Sevilla Date: 23/05/2023

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The processes of social mobility in comparative perspective between Chile and Spain

Speaker: Cristian Segura-Carrillo Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The objective of the seminar is to present the analysis of social inequality from the perspective of social mobility, comparing Spain and Chile, countries

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