Category Archives: General

Social capital and residential setting among youth at risk of labour market exclusion. A case study – CAPENRISG

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge job destruction that has most severely affected the young Spanish population. Although the latest data from the EPA show a return to pre-pandemic levels of unemployment rates, it is still a long way

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Participation in a session of the Global Deal Forum 2022 in Madrid

2022 – Óscar Molina The Global Deal Forum is one of the primary global annual events on social dialogue. It will bring together Global Deal partners, including key policy makers. Óscar Molina has participated in the session ” Social dialogue and labour

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Participation in the Time Use Week

2022 – Sara Moreno  Time Use Week – Time and (Ine)qualities is the international meeting in time politics. Held between 24 and 28 October in Barcelona, this ninth edition has been dedicated to promoting good practices and knowledge in the

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Participation in the VI Cumbre Iberoamericana de Agendas Locales de Género

2022 – Sara Moreno  The VI Ibero-American Summit on Local Gender Agendas is convened by the Ibero-American Union of Municipalists and co-organized by the United Nations entity dedicated to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women – UN Women,

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The social capital of Spanish youth: Traits and effects on the material and emotional well-being

The study describes the characteristics of the social capital of Spanish youth, analyses its effects on their material and emotional well-being, and identifies the social inequalities involved. The project has two objectives: (1) to quantitatively describe the characteristics of the

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Spanish workers in the Netherlands: an x-ray of the exploitation system in the distribution and logistics sector

Speaker: Sander Junte Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The precariousness and lack of opportunities that characterize the Spanish labor market have led many Spaniards in recent years to choose to

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Racism, Place, and Space: White Sanctuaries, U.S. Museums, and Maintaining the Status Quo

Speaker: David G. Embrick Institution: University of Connecticut The Art Institute of Chicago – a nationally recognized museum – as a white sanctuary, i.e., a white institutional space within a racialized social system that serves to reassure whites of their

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Sexual and gender-based harassment in the workplace: a qualitative approach.

Speakers: Sara Moreno & Vicent Borràs Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis Sociològics sobre la Vida Quotidiana i el Treball The main objective of the study is to carry out a qualitative approach to sexual and gender-based harassment in

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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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