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The Social Dimension of Entrepreneurship

Startups have emerged as a promising avenue for the creation of jobs and economic growth, empowered by various kinds of support available to entrepreneurs to help them develop their businesses. Nevertheless, success remains confined to a few, and building a

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Work and Life Quality in New and Growing Jobs – WALQING

In order to explore the linkages between ‘new jobs’, conditions of work and employment in these jobs and more or less favourable outcomes for employees’ quality of work and life, WALQING combines data analysis on the chief European data sources,

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Sustainable, social, and local development with employment generation

This research project proposes an alternative hypothesis to local development that will be characterized by an economic process taking into account the new social and ecological needs, which have to be considered in the welfare of our communities. These new

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Working time in the collective bargaining and its social effects

The aim of this project is to study through collective agreements the reorganization of working time and its effects on everyday life. Our hypothesis is that reorganization of working time endures and reinforces a greatest centrality and structuration of power

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A research about the “double female presence”: a bet for bring into line working

The objective of this project is to analyze the access and the stay of women in the labor market in Spain from the point of view of the “double female presence”. That is to say, considering that the presence of

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The involvement of work sharing on employment and everyday life

This research focus on work sharing. This core idea divides in three goals. The first one is to study proposals on job sharing. The second one raises the redistribution of “total work charge” (employment and housework) and more generally the

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Training and employment

The objective of this investigation is to analyze the relationship between training and employment, questioning the affirmation that more training is equivalent to more and better employment. The social representation of training as a strong factor in obtaining a job

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Industrial relations in processes of political transition. Comparative Study of models: Argentina, Spain

The aim of this comparative study is to produce a bibliographic approach to labour relations in the transition periods from authoritarian régimes to pluralistic democracies. The Spanish transition and its process of consolidation constitute today a model for numerous countries.

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Socio-labour profile of female unemployment in Spain

The female unemployment is one of the trends that characterise the labour market in Spain in the last few years. The main reasons that explain this phenomenon have its roots in the interaction between female productive adn reproductive labour processes.

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Transformations into work and social welfare

The objective of this study is to analyse some of the most relevant changes that are taking place in our country with regard to work. Start date: 01/12/1990 Finish date: 01/03/1994 Financing: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia-Dirección General de Investigación

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