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Precarious workers' choices about unemployment insurance membership after the Ghent system reform : The Finnish experience
2019
The literature on the Ghent system has focused on the link between voluntary unemployment insurance and union membership in terms of industrial relations. Less attention has been paid to unemployment benefits and employees' decision-making concerning unemployment insurance, even though the core function of the Ghent system is to provide unemployment insurance. This paper examines both of the options that precarious workers (i.e., part-timers, temporary employees, and low-skilled service employees) choose regarding unemployment insurance membership and the change in union density after the Ghent system reform in Finland. First, the results show that the growth of the independent unemployment…
Is There Life Outside of the European Union? Lower Silesians’ Opinions About the Alternatives to the EU Membership
2017
This paper answers the question about the alternatives to the European Union membership (and its consequences) conceptualised by the inhabitants of Lower Silesia. To achieve this goal, this text delivers and discusses the empirical data, both quantitative and qualitative, answering the sub-questions if and how their lives have changed as a result of the accession to the EU as well as what are the alternatives, namely: How would our lives have looked like if Poland had not joined the EU in 2004? The article is empirical at its heart. It is built on some fresh data from an extensive research project conducted in 2014 – at the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the EU ‘big bang’ enlargement.…
Membership duration in a Spanish union : a survival analysis
2013
Background of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004. WP1: Compilation This article presents an analysis of the characteristics that are associated with union membership duration using data from the membership registers of the largest Spanish trade union: Comisiones Obreras (CCOO, Workers' Commissions). Making use of survival analysis techniques, the results indicate that the shortest membership durations and the highest risks of leaving are associated with workers with poor employment conditions, mainly youth and foreigners, as well as those in firms, economic sectors, and territories where the union has a rather weak presence. As workers in these situations represent the majority o…
La dinámica afiliativa sindical y las trayectorias de sus miembros
2013
Este texto recoge los primeros resultados del Proyecto trianual de Investigación Fundamental no orientada Ref. CSO2010-17962, aprobado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Convocatoria 2010) y del que soy investigadora principal. Dicho Proyecto de I+D, que lleva por título La construcción política del evangelismo gitano: Iglesias, federaciones y nuevos actores políticos, cuenta con la participación formal de la Dra. Teresa San Román Espinosa, catedrática de Antropología Social de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona Background of INCASI Project H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 GA 691004. WP1: Compilation Este texto analiza la dinámica afiliativa de altas y bajas de los sindicatos españoles a part…