Category Archives: Research

ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC ISSUES IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. SOCIAL AND LABOR OBSERVATORY FOR CUBA

Cuba is promoting a process of transformations called “updating the economic model” that constitute a strategic opportunity in terms of development because they address critical nodes of the economic model, but impose a set of social and labor challenges that

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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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Regional Gender Equality Measure in the EU – ReGEM. Jean Monnet Project

Gender equality is a topic of growing relevance worldwide, but its measurement is mainly limited to national levels, even in the EU. During the last 20 years, several experiences tried to exploit gender equality at the sub-national (regional) level, but

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Technical assistance on solidarity distribution mechanisms and protection against unemployment-Redistributive and solidarity-based social security systems.

EUROsociAL+ is a European Union cooperation program whose overall objective is to contribute to increasing social cohesion in Latin America; its specific objective is to support national public policies on social issues, good governance and gender equality, with the aim

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Public procurement and collective bargaining Spain

An in-depth case study will be conducted on national regulations, practices and debates about public procurement in Spain for the final report “Public procurement and collective bargaining”. The in-depth case study will provide a brief overview of the national procurement

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Impact of training at workplace level on youth’s pathway career. Proposals for improvement – IMFORTRA

The aim is to study the formation “at” work place, its articulation with the National Qualifications Catalogue (NCC) and its influence on the career paths of young people. Training “at” employment is now a major in active employment policies aimed

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Analysis of sociological and psychological variables as predictors of employability in the profiling of the Employment Services of Catalonia – PerfilaSP

Profiling is a tool available to public employment services to optimise the allocation of job seekers to the different active employment programmes or services. Thus, the PerfilaSP project investigates how to improve the profiling processes currently applied in the Servei

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Democracy at Work through Transparent and Inclusive Algorithmic Management – INCODING

Growing datafication of work environments deployed by new technological capacities built on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhanced systems are disrupting the industrial relations scene in many ways. These technologies increase the possibilities of collecting, combining and using data

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Design, implementation, and impact evaluation of the measures funded by the Public Employment Service of Catalonia within the framework of the agreement established with the Fundación Cecot Innovació

This research project develops a design, implementation, and impact evaluation of those actions related to the Reempresa programme and funded by the Public Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC). Reempresa is a programme driven by two private fundations: Fundación Cecot Innovació

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A qualitative approach to sexual harassment in the world of work

The aim of the study is to make a qualitative approach to sexual and gender-based harassment in the workplace in order to learn about the perceptions, experiences and socially shared imaginaries that are part of this phenomenon. The starting point

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