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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Deinstitutionalization of long-term care, demographic challenge and social inclusion: recognition and redistribution of work and care needs (DESINCARE)

The main objective of the coordinated project is to analyse the strategy of deinstitutionalisation of long-term care, in the context of a model in transition, facing demographic challenges and pursuing social inclusion. It aims to study the factors that contribute

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Policies and governance for a just transition to electric and connected vehicles (TRANSVEC). New production model and governance in the transition to the electric and connected vehicle

The transition from the production model related to Electric and Connected Vehicles (EVCs) presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges in the automotive sector’s history. On the one hand, the automotive industry is facing a global reconfiguration, which threatens to significantly change

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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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Institutional rules and the practices and trajectories of social science research personnel

Studies on the professional careers of social science researchers tend to focus on the development of their training, experience, expertise, working conditions or the academic milestones they achieve throughout their careers. This series of particularities is usually linked to sociodemographic

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International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities (INCASI2)

INCASI, International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities is an international research and training network between Europe and Latin America that was created in 2015 with a Horizon 2020 project of the European Commission: INCASI1, aimed at studying social

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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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