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French Hotel Industry: Traditions and Social Developments
2006
This study is the continuation of a research carried out in USA about the low wage workers. It is coordinated in France by the Cepremap and developed at the same time in four other European countries (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) for six industries. This report underlines the characteristics and main trends of the French Hotel Industry, the international competition, local pressure and the managers' strategies.
Hôtels et dépendances
2011
Cet article présente une analyse de la qualité de l’emploi des femmes de chambre dans divers pays d’Europe sous le double aspect des contraintes patronales de gestion de main-d’œuvre, et de la construction des trajectoires professionnelles des salariées. Vulnérables, peu qualifiées et peu valorisées, souvent d’origine étrangère, la plupart des femmes de chambre sont aisément fidélisées du fait de leur faible employabilité sur le marché du travail. En réalité, elles se trouvent reléguées dans une spirale qui lie flexibilité, rémunération médiocre, précarité plurielle, renforcée par les pratiques de dépendance des hôteliers. This article addresses the issue of job quality for housekeepers in …
Recruitment through migrant social networks from Latvia to the United Kingdom: Motivations, processes and developments
2015
A burgeoning body of literature exists in relation to the role of social networks in connecting migrant workers with employment opportunities, particularly in lower wage jobs. This evidence points to social networks being an attractive recruitment channel from the perspective of both migrants seeking employment and employers seeking employees. This analysis presents a wide breadth of original material, which examines recruitment through social networks from the perspective of both migrants and employers. This includes data drawn from an extensive mixed methods approach involving a novel online survey of Latvian migrants in the UK and face-to-face interviews with British low-wage employers. …
La incidencia del salario mínimo interprofesional en sectores de bajos salarios
2012
El salario mínimo es un tema que ha vuelto a cobrar actualidad. La mayoría de los análisis que se realizan al respecto se centran en determinar si su nivel tiene algún tipo de incidencia sobre el empleo. No obstante, son escasos los trabajos que abordan si efectivamente el salario mínimo cumple con su objetivo básico: mejorar las rentas de los perceptores de bajos salarios. En este trabajo abordamos precisamente esta cuestión. Para ello se analiza la evolución de los salarios en la negociación colectiva en tres sectores considerados de bajos salarios (comercio al por menor, hostelería y limpieza de locales y edificios), centrándonos en los puestos inferiores de la escala salarial. The minim…
Housekeepers lost in the Land of Labor Market Segmentation
2007
07022 - 13 p.; This communication analyses the role that the main social actors, employers, trade unions and the French government play in labour market regulations, especially in working conditions, for feminine low wage workers. Labor market segmentation and the dual market theory (Doeringer and Piore, 1971), with on one hand qualified workers employed in attractive and stable positions, and on the other hand manpower in low-paid and insecure jobs, often in back-breaking working conditions, are not new. However, they have recently reappeared in the situation of housekeepers in the French hotel industry, where there are particularly few chances of career ladders, and on the contrary, there…
Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector?
2013
AbstractThe issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish survey data, people's attitudes are found to be more negative to such trade than to goods trade. The differences depend on both a preference for favouring social groups to which individuals belong (the domestic population) and altruistic justice concerns for foreign workers. In small-group experiments, we find a tendency for people to adjust their evaluations of various aspects of trade to their general attitude. This tendency is stronger for those opposed to than those in favour of low-wage trade competition. This may indicate that the former group forms its attitu…
Do Scarring Effects of Low-Wage Employment and Non-Employment Differ BETWEEN Levels of Qualification?
2014
This study investigates how the effects of low-wage employment and non-employment on wage prospects vary depending on qualification. Based on theories on signalling effects, human capital and job search, we discuss why there may be heterogeneity in state dependence in both labour market states. We find that episodes of low-wage employment incur a significantly lower risk of future non-employment than episodes of non-employment for low-qualified workers. In contrast, for workers with a middle or high level of qualification the risk of non-employment is not significantly different when being low-paid instead of not employed.
Pobreza laboral en España : causas y alternativas políticas
2017
En el contexto de la crisis actual los trabajadores y trabajadoras pobres son una nueva realidad y las tasas de pobreza en España se encuentran entre las más altas de Europa. Habitualmente la pobreza se relacionada con el desempleo y la jubilación. Pero desde 2007 las características de las personas afectadas han cambiado radicalmente. Colectivos que tradicionalmente se consideraban "protegidos" (personas ocupadas, con nivel educativo alto…) ahora ya no lo están. El fuerte incremento de la pobreza que ha tenido lugar y la generalización del problema a nuevos grupos sociales significan un nuevo desafío para el trabajo decente y la integración social. Desde nuestro punto de vista las causas d…