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The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...
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This paper presents a case study of the food delivery platform, Deliveroo, in Belgium in 2016-2018. The case offers …, and the role of local regulations. Interestingly, Deliveroo in Belgium employed workers through an intermediary, SMart …
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This working paper investigates a rare case of platform work performed in the realm of regulated employment and … delivery platform. In Belgium, Deliveroo used another labour market intermediary, SMart, to organise, manage and legalise … workers' employment status. Thus, effectively, Deliveroo riders worked as dependent employees but were hired by SMart, not …
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, Germany and Belgium. We also compare recent developments in the industrial policy frameworks of these countries, considering …
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The institution of marriage has served to funnel economic resources from fathers to children. Its continued decline in the countries of the developed world threatens the adequacy of the economic support of human reproduction, now increasingly provided by women. Its decline is also probably...
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
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India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper … standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the impact of individual and household characteristics in explaining … gender differences in the labour market. We find that household characteristics, rather than alternative explanations such as …
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