Search results for "Jobs"
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Automation, workers' skills and job satisfaction.
2020
When industrial robots are adopted by firms in a local labor market, some workers are displaced and become unemployed. Other workers that are not directly affected by automation may however fear that these new technologies might replace their working tasks in the future. This fear of a possible future replacement is important because it negatively affects workers’ job satisfaction at present. This paper studies the extent to which automation affects workers’ job satisfaction, and whether this effect differs for high- versus low-skilled workers. The empirical analysis uses microdata for several thousand workers in Norway from the Working Life Barometer survey for the period 2016–2019, combin…
Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates
2012
In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneur…
Sull'adeguatezza dell'indennità euro-unitaria di disoccupazione (EUBS)
2017
L’indennità euro-unitaria di disoccupazione (EUBS) è una misura di armonizzazione volta alla convergenza regolamentare a livello europeo del sostegno al reddito in caso di disoccupazione. L’EUBS è una delle proposte più significative che le istituzioni europee stanno elaborando con gli stati membri e le parti sociali. L’EUBS ha presupposti giuridici nel TFUE e nella Costituzione italiana. Il saggio è un contributo giuridico all’idea politica sotto una duplice prospettiva. Si studiano, da una parte, le complicazioni e le criticità dell’introduzione dell’EUBS rispetto alle fonti di diritto europeo; al contempo, con riferimento alla stratificazione normativa del sistema previdenziale italiano …
Repercussions of Economic and Social Factors on Pension Systems
2013
Abstract Economic and social developments in recent years have left serious marks on pension systems. As forecasts for the following period are bleak, the need for uniting the efforts of public authorities with those of the business environment, research institutes and the academic community in order to identify viable solutions for both the present and the future, becomes increasingly obvious. Together they can identify remedies and contribute to the popularization of a problem whose consequences, once known, can be counteracted. The paper drafted, by studying the literature, confronts a number of common issues faced by pension systems in the current period and emphasizes the possibility o…
Représentations professionnelles des filles et des garçons au collège : les effets d'une pièce de théâtre interactive
2002
Programmes were launched in the French region of Burgundy in order to increase the understanding of the social and cultural obstacles for women in terms of occupational fields, considered a priori as male dominated. As part of this programme, the Compagnie du Sablier performed an interactive theatre play called "Lucie, the technician" ; it was aimed at an audience of lower secondary school pupils. It tells the story of a young girl determined to choose a male dominated occupation, and challenges young people to consider their career choice. The purpose of this study is to analyse the vocational representations of girls and boys, and to look at the pupils' visions of the world of work, in or…
Effectiveness of Entrepreneurial Universities: Experiences and Challenges in Digital Era (A Systemic Approach)
2021
The modern world actively discusses the challenges that will lead to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As the specialists assume, part of the jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence. In addition, creation of completely new jobs is expected. As for the jobs that might be maintained in future, skills upgrading will be particularly important. In such a turbulent environment of economic development, universities, and in particular entrepreneurial universities, play a significant role. We think so as these universities have special structures that promote form a university-industry-government triple helix, reskilling and commercialization of new ideas, etc. Due to the above-mentioned fa…
Who is ‘on-call’ in Australia? A new classification approach for on-call employment in future population-level studies
2021
Background On-call research and guidance materials typically focus on ‘traditional’ on-call work (e.g., emergency services, healthcare). However, given the increasing prevalence of non-standard employment arrangements (e.g., gig work and casualisation), it is likely that a proportion of individuals who describe themselves as being on-call are not included in current on-call literature. This study therefore aimed to describe the current sociodemographic and work characteristics of Australian on-call workers. Methods A survey of 2044 adults assessed sociodemographic and work arrangements. Of this population, 1057 individuals were workforce participants, who were asked to provide information …
Young Lads and Old Tars: Changing Age Structure of the Nordic Sailors, 1750s–1930s
2022
AbstractThis article analyzes the changing age structure of Swedish and Finnish sailors for almost 200 years. We show that the proportion of the youngest men increased during the age of sail (i.e., the older technology). The average age increased significantly during the early twentieth century as steam (i.e., the newer technology) replaced sail in Nordic shipping. Thus, a technological revolution did not displace the older workers, but rather diminished the demand for the younger ones. This study shows, however, that technological changes were not the only drivers of changes in the age structure of Nordic sailors. Institutional and societal changes also played an important role, though the…
La nuova disciplina delle mansioni tra flessibilità organizzativa e tutela del prestatore di lavoro
2016
Il saggio analizza la liberalizzazione della disciplina delle mansioni introdotta dal d.lgs. 81/2015 (Jobs Act). The essay analyses the liberalisation of the Italian legal framework on task introduced by Legislative decree no. 81/2015 (Jobs Act).
Jobs Act e tutela contrattuale della persona: un'involuzione?
2016
The need to adapt to the economic system promoted by the European Union generated a wave of reform in the field of labor law that invested Italy and France. This essay explores the impact of the Italian Jobs Act on the contractual protection of the worker. In particular: i) the weakening of the concept of the employment relationship as a tool for the realization of the worker understood as both a human being and a professional; and ii) the emphasis given to the protection against discriminations. The focus on the latter represents the link with the French reform and creates the premises for the author’s considerations and questions on the idea of the human being promoted by the European Uni…