This article presents an index of the work quality for Santiago de Cali (Colombia). Our results show that the "comunas" with higher quality are 17, 19, 22 and, 2. "Comunas" 13, 21, 15,3, 7, 20 present poor quality of the work. In this way we show spatiality patterns of the work quality. Also,...

Entre los principales efectos de la actual crisis económica en España se encuentra la gran destrucción de puestos de trabajo, superando actualmente la tasa de paro el 22%. Ante esta situación, las actuaciones de los poderes públicos se encaminan hacia la recuperación económica y, así la...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores que más inciden en la determinación de la calidad del empleo dentro del contexto de la Unión Europea, adoptándose el enfoque de los indicadores sociales y empleando información objetiva y subjetiva. Partiendo de una batería de...

BASED ON A SERIES OF SURVEYS ON THE LIVING AND MIGRATION CONDITIONS OF CHILDREN, THIS STUDY HIGHLIGHTS THE MAGNITUDE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILD LABOUR IN BURKINA FASO, CÔTE D'IVOIRE AND MALI. FOUR (04) MAJOR LESSONS WERE LEARNT : (I) THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF CHILDREN WORKING IN VIOLATION...

Even though informality, work quality and worker well-being are closely knit issues, there is a dearth of studies which explore the issue of informality as deficiency of workers' well-being or poor job-quality. Our study is an attempt to contribute to the literature in this direction. We propose...

“Active Ageing” strategies aim to foster the participation of seniors in the society. Although economic literature has extensively studied the incentives for seniors to increase their labour supply, little is known about the motivations for older people to complement labour with other forms...

This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We find higher temporary employment rates especially among a grey market group of workplaces that pay...