This report provides information on India on behalf of the implementation of the DECISIONS FOR LIFE project in that country. The DECISIONS FOR LIFE project aims to raise awareness amongst young female workers about their employment opportunities and career possibilities, family building and the...

This paper details the WageIndicator web-survey, the questionnaire and its dataset. The paper is an update of previous codebooks and explanatory notes.1 In the past years, the WageIndicator web-survey and its datacollection has undergone several technological innovations. In 2009, it was decided...

This report provides information on Zimbabwe on behalf of the implementation of the DECISIONS FOR LIFE project in that country. The DECISIONS FOR LIFE project aims to raise awareness amongst young female workers about their employment opportunities and career possibilities, family building and...

This paper is the result of a study on temp agency workers and on the role that temp agency work played in company’s staffing strategies and on industry and national regulations regarding temp agencies and temp agency work. It was conducted in2004-2006, as part of a larger project on low wage...

Dutch policy makers recently set the public debate on ageing alight by enforcing drastic cuts in early retirement opportunities; increasing taxation of the aged and augmenting retirement age are also considered.<br /> The prime argument is to diminish a burden on public finances far in future. This...

In the present paper, an attempt has been made to measure the consequences for the quality of life of working with a part-time and/or temporary contract. Quality of life has been defined in a utilitarian and a liberal way. In the utilitarian definition, the quality of life is determined by the...

Studies examining the relationship between globalization and the welfare state tend to focus on the effects of economic dimensions of globalization; the extent to which a country is part of the world market. Globalization also has a social and political dimension and their effects on welfare...

In dit rapport onderzoeken we het gebruik van uitkeringen door eerste en tweede generatie immigranten in de periode 1999-2006. Het al dan niet ontvangen van een uitkering wordt, met gegevens van het CBS, gemeten in de periode 27 tot en met 31 december. In- en uitstroom worden gemeten als...

Many pension funds have a mismatch between assets and liabilities, taking more risks than securing liabilities implies. This puts .xed claims of retirees at risk. For the cases with and without macro-risk, this paper analyses the implications of this asset-liability mismatch for welfare,...

h2. Introduction Against a background of growing international competition and of pervasive uncertainty and fluidity, flexicurity policies are being actively promoted in the EU policy agenda as a useful policy tool to address the needs of business to respond to rapid changes, while providing...