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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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Collaboration of Óscar Molina as a expert in a report by ON Economía

Ferrari, J. (2023, February, 2). El SMI sube más porcentualmente en 13 países de la UE que en España. ON Economía. https://www.elnacional.cat/oneconomia/es/economia/smi-sube-porcentaje-13-paises-ue-espana_962661_102.html

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Moderation of the first conference on the Catalan employment system. Guidance and labor intermediation: current situation and transformations in the digital era

2022 – Óscar Molina Conference organized by the Centre d’Orientació i Emprenedoria de Catalunya (COE-CAT) focused on guidance and labor intermediation, with emphasis on current transformations. The keynote speech focused on the key role of guidance and labor intermediation in

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Gender relations in public organizations. Time, work and transformations (2022)

The main objective of this doctoral thesis is to understand why, despite the increase of women in the spaces of political representation, political organizations still reproduce an unequal distribution of political power by gender. For this purpose, structuralist theoretical approaches

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The relationship between training and employment in dual vocational training. Implications for the education-work transition (2022)

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the probable school-work transition of those who have studied the dual mode in Vocational Training. The research takes as a reference the whole of Spain but focuses on the reality of

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