Category Archives: Research themes

Enhancing social partners’ and social dialogue capacity in the new world of work

Building on earlier collaboration between the ILO and the EC in the field of Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue, this project takes a longer term view and will look at challenges and opportunities facing social partners as a result of

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Provision of scheduled and on-request reporting services – Network of Eurofound Correspondents

As the Spanish correspondent of Eurofound, together with ISTAS, QUIT provide inputs that allows Eurofound to map and compare regulations, policies and practices in industrial relations, working conditions, labour markets and employment as well as in other social policy related

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Networked coordination of industrial relations – NETWIR

The analysis of collective bargaining coordination has attracted the attention of scholars and policy-makers since the early 1990s, but has witnessed a renaissance more recently. Originally, ‘coordination’ was presented as a dimension of collective bargaining that was considered an alternative

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European, national and Transnational Industrial Relations: Visible and Invisible Hands in European and National Wage Settings – ENTIRE VIEW

This project, coordinated by Prof. Bernd Brand al the Durham University Business School, is funded by the European Commission to investigate and analyse the reasons for differences in wage developments within the European Union (EU) member states. This project will

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Break up to get back together. The impact of unionisation through innovative service provision on union membership and industrial relations – BREAKBACK

The Project focuses on “service provision” as a strategy through which unions aim to enhance their membership, “revitalize” action and relaunch the role of an inclusive and innovative social dialogue, by reaching groups and individuals who are often excluded from

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Labour market integration of asylum seekers and refugees in main EU destination countries

Migration is one of the focus topics of European policies and a crucial issue for trade unions, as well. The refugee flow that reached Europe unprepared in 2015/2016 needs further supporting policies. Individual member states are affected by the different

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Working conditions and collective representation in digital platforms. Future challenges

This study aims to analyze the effects of digital platforms on working conditions and forms of collective representation, both at union and professional level. Start date: 09/03/2019 Finish date: 08/03/2020 Financing: Comissions Obreres de Catalunya Reference: 17324 Principal investigator: Antonio

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Understanding the waste pickers of Catalonia: contributions and deficits of an informal economy

In Catalonia, we can distinguish a formal waste management sector, managed mostly by municipalities and other public administrations, while simultaneously observing a parallel informal waste management sector of “Waste Pickers,” acting both within and outside the formal sector. The primary

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The sticky floor of women in the city of Barcelona

The overall objective of this study is to contribute to the analysis of this phenomenon, which determines the everyday experience of many women, in order to improve possible actions on this matter, from the public administration, as well as in

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The role of active employment policies in the development and mobilization of the social capital of young people with vulnerable work paths

The project analyses the impact of youth employment policies, and in particular the active employment policies (AEPs), in the labour trajectories of the most disadvantaged young people, from the point of view of the improvement of its social capital. The

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