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New professions for the social organization of everyday care

The need to cope with new social needs that have emerged as a result of changes in contemporary welfare societies in the past two decades, it seems beyond doubt. Needs that you may question their novelty, but that most experts

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Flexicurity in Italy and Spain; Work, Welfare and Living Conditions

The aim of this project is to measure the capacity and the effects of institutions and local actors to interpret and implement the rules’ system in the field of labour market and social policies, in an innovative way. The analysis

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Compared case study on the mutual influence between social capital, social integration and the insertion, stability, promotion and qualification in the employment

The general objective of the project is to analyse the correspondence or mutual influence between, on the one hand, belonging to particular social groups, characterized and identified according to the distribution and/or appropriation of different kinds of Social Capital, and,

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Changes in the Spanish employment model

This research arises from the spectacular increase of the total economically active population experienced in Spain in the period 1997-2006, rising from 13.2 million to 19.5 million. More than 3 million of this increase is due to immigrant population. So,

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New strategies of migration: requalification for a new labour market

The current economic crisis has significnatly increased the number of unemployed persons reaching a four million maximum in the early months of 2010. This increase has triggered a dramatic shift in labour market demand that was satisfied in the expansion

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Re-thinking Labour Market Policies in Southern Europe by bringing in Labour Market Actors

This project analyses the institutional and policy conditions for effectiveness of labour market policies in Portugal and Spain and to provide some policy orientation as to how to improve their positive contribution to the labour market. During the last fifteen

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Evaluation of income support (PIRMI)

Project type: Agreements Research line: Local development policies Start date: 01/04/1993 Finish date: 01/10/1993 Project status: Finished Financing: Departament de Treball de la Generalitat de Catalunya Responsable researcher: Fausto Miguélez, Teresa Torns Documents and publications: Working Paper nº 8, QUIT-UAB, 1997

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HRM in multinacional companies: flexibility, participaction and the role of headquarters

Start date: 01/01/1993 Finish date: 01/06/1995 Financing: Industrial Relations Research Unit (IRRU)-University of Warwick Responsable researcher: Antonio Martín Team: Immaculada Pastor, Xavier E. Posada Documents and publications: Informe sobre las prácticas de flexibilidad y participación y el papel del centro

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Techonological Innovation, Human Resources Management, Organizational Changes

L´objecte de l´estudi se centra en la innovació tecnològica i en la influència que exerceix sobre una sèrie d´aspectes que hi estan estretament relacionats; especialment estudia els canvis que, amb la seva implantació, experimenten l´organització del treball, l´estructura i les

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Old and new paths of labour regulation in SMES in Europe: trends and challenges for economic competitiveness and social sustainability Financial

The project aims at studying the mechanisms of labour regulation within small-scale firms located in the diffused-economy areas of Tuscany, with particular attention to the specificity of institutional regulation and social negotiation practices at local level, and to the mutual

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