Category Archives: Current projects

Women and the Gender Pay Gap in the Barcelona City Council

The Barcelona City Council has been a pioneer in promoting an organizational culture committed to ensuring equality between women and men in all areas, stages, and circumstances of life, as established by Law 17/2015 of July 21, on effective equality

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Decoding Algorithmic Management for Platform Worker’s Calculative Power

The project aims at investigating how algorithmic management affects work organisation and working conditions, with particular attention to working time and revenues of workers in female-dominated (care and cleaning) and male-dominated sectors (food-delivery) in Spain, Chile, Uruguay and Switzerland (French

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Study on the use of AI and algorithms in the processes of selection and promotion of workers

The main objective of the study is to analyse the effect of algorithm-based AI systems used in the selection, work organisation and promotion processes of companies, identifying both the possible positive effects for workers and the possible biases based on

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Update of the study “The Sticky Floor of Women in the City of Barcelona”

The sticky floor concept captures women’s labour market experience. This term refers to the inability of many women to advance in their occupations, as they are mostly employed in labour-intensive sectors with precarious working conditions and low wages, characterised by

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FOESSA Report on Social Exclusion and Development in Catalonia

The aim of this report is to analyse the labour market in Catalonia, more specifically, the phenomenon of job precariousness through its dual objective and subjective dimensions. The socioeconomic changes of recent decades have broken with the so-called social norm

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Good practices in social responsibility for young people’s first work experience

The study, consisting of the compilation of different good practices (benchlearning) at European, national and regional level based on the comparison of evidence through quantitative and qualitative indicators, aims to facilitate the design of future labour integration policies aimed at

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