ADAPT INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN
Bulletin No. 15/2015
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Great Transformation of Work
Why the Sharing Economy is harming workers and what can be done
Robert Reich, Social Europe, 30 November 2015.
#COP21: what the climate talks could mean for UK workers
Silkie Cragg, Environment, 30 November 2015.
“My father had one job in his life, I've had six in mine, my kids will have six at the same time”
Tim Adams, The Guardian, 29 November 2015.
Five ways work will change in the future
Interviews by Killian Fox and Joanne O'Connor, The Guardian, 29 November 2015.
Food and Farming: Focus on Jobs and Growth
European Commission, December 2015.
How the age of Individualism is impacting work and employment
Denis Pennel, Staffing America Latina, 23 November 2015.
Your Company Needs Independent Workers
Steve King and Gene Zaino, Harvard Business Review Blog, 23 November 2015.
The faces of the new food revolution
Anna Lappé, AlJazeera America, 23 November 23 2015.
Digitization: New Work Concepts Are Revolutionizing The World Of Work
Andreas Boes, Social Europe, 20 November 2015.
Labour Law
Pay inequality: Salary gap between average wages and those of top executives 'widening each year'
Andy McSmith, Indipendent, 30 November 2015.
Why wage and hour litigation is skyrocketing
Lydia DePyllis, Washington Post, 26 November 2015.
Is It Too Late, Baby? New Grievances For Old Wounds
Steve Waller, Labour of Law, 25 November 2015.
Industrial Relations
United Kingdom: Report indentifies key levers for improving workplace productivity
Eurofound, 26 November 2015.
Collective bargaining in the public service in the European Union
ILO, 25 November 2015
France: new study sheds light on membership of employers’ organizations
Eurofound, 24 November 2015
Spain: Impact of social dialogue among workers with disabilities
Eurofound, 24 November 2015.
U.A.W. contracts change math for Detroit automakers
Bill Vlasic e Mary M. Chapman, The New York Times, 24 November 2015.
Wage Inequality and the Liberalization of Industrial Relations in the United States
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Number 38, November 2015.
How Walmart keeps an eye on its massive workforce
Susan Berfield, Bloomberg Businessweek, 24 November 2015.
Bonus time? Research shows it’s better to reward groups than individuals
Ian F. Wilkinson, Dan Ladley and Louise Carley Young, The Conversation, 19 November 2015.
Public sector is focus on industrial action
Eurofound, 18 November 2015.
Labour Market
The value of language skills
Gilles Grenier, IZA World of Labor, November 2015
Minimum wages and employment in China
Tony Fang and Carl Lin, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 27 November 2015.
Draft joint employment report from the Commission and the Council
European Commission, 26 November 2015.
Social Network and Labour Market Mismatch
Eleni Kalfa, Matloob Piracha, IZA Discussion Paper, November 2015.
Domestic work, wages, and gender equality: Lessons from developing countries
ILO, 25 November 2015.
It runs in the family: Intra-household correlations in labour market outcomes
ILO Youth Employment, November 2015.
First Findings: Sixth European Working Conditions Survey
Eurofound, 23 November 2015.
Searching for Work in the Digital Era
Aaron Smith, Pew Research Center, 19 November 2015.
Job creation in SMEs – Résumé
Eurofound, November 2015.
School to Work Transition, Higher Education & Innovative PhD
How can we compare education systems that are so different?
Dirk Van Damme, OECD Education Today Blog, 26 November 2015.
Education at a Glace 2015
OECD, 24 November 2015.
Are we going informal? Validation of informal and non-formal learning in Europe, between new regulation paths and occupational transitions’ organization
Lilli Casano, ELLN Blog, 23 November 2015.
Lancement du projet pilote franco-allemand pour un Erasmus des apprentis
Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi, de la Formation Professionnelle et du Dialogue social, 23 November 2015.
High Education: postgraduate study – Government response to the consultation on support for graduate study
Department for Business, Innovation and skills, November 2015.
Wellness, Health & Safety at Work
Obesity and its effects in the workplace
Fit for Work, 27 November 2015.
Leaveism: the new public sector epidemic
Claire Churchard, CIPD, 25 November 2015.
This Won’t Hurt a Bit Supporting small business to be healthy, wealthy and wise
The Work Foundation, 24 November 2015.
Sixth European Working Conditions Survey: Résumé
Eurofound, 23 November 2015.
The future of work: crowdsourcing
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 20 November 2015.
Firms losing three weeks per employee each year because of staff sickness
Becky Frith, HR Magazine, 18 November 2015.
Disabled entrepreneurs are facing 'too many barriers'
Louise Tickle, The Guardian, 19 November 2015.
Employment & Demography
Immigrants, residential concentration and employment in eight Italian cities
Tito Boeri, Marta De Philippis, Eleonora Patacchini, Michele Pellizzari, VOX, 24 November 2015.
Should countries auction immigrant visas?
IZA World of Labor, November 2015.
Cross-border migration and travel: A virtuous relationship
Jacques Poot, IZA World of Labor, November 2015.
How demographics rule the global economy
Greg Ip, WSJ 2050, 22 November 2015.
Citizenship and Precarious Labour in Canadian Agriculture
Gerardo Otero and Kerry Preibisch, CCPA, November 2015.
Europe Still Needs the Migrants
Giles Merrit, Editor of Europe's World and heads the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, 17 November 2015.
Welfare
Pensions at a Glance 2015
OECD, 1 December 2015
Worker Protection in the Gig Economy
Laura Tyson, professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lenny Mendonca, former director of McKinsey & Company, 28 November 2015
How much retirement income is enough in your country?
Brigitte Miksa, World Economic Forum, 23 November 2015.
The impact of welfare to work on parents and their children
Michelle Brady, University of Queensland and Kay Cook, RMIT University, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government, 2015.
Events & Call for Papers
International Conference: "New technologies and new forms of employment in spanish and comparative law". “Adapt or die” (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Argentina and Spain)
14-16 April 2016, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Pre-Conference Doctoral Student Workshop: Labour Law in European and Global Perspectives
18 May 2016, Stockholm University
New Foundations of Labour Law in the Globalised Market Economy?
19-20 May 2016, Stockholm
Call for Papers: Fifth International Conference on Precarious Work and Vulnerable Workers
June 13 and 14 2016, Middlesex University, London, UK
Institute of Work Psychology International Conference 2016
21 - 23 June 2016, Sheffield, UK
Facilitating Sustainable Work: Theory and Practice
3 - 5 November 2016, Manchester (UK), The 28th Annual Conference. European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
ISA Conference: Meeting the Productivity Challenge
24 - 26 May 2016, Minneapolis (USA), 2016 Industry Studies Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS. 53rd Annual CIRA Congress Visions of Work: Examining the Workplace as a Multidisciplinary Meeting Place
31 May - 2 June 2016, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS. BUIRA 2016: Employment relations towards 2020 and beyond: reflection, prospects and opportunities
29 June - 1 July 2016, The Carriageworks, Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD
CALL FOR PAPERS. The Platform Society. Oxford Internet Society and European Consortium of Political Research
22-23 September 2016, University of Oxford
CALL FOR PAPERS, 11th Global Labour University Conference, South Africa, 2016 “The Just Transition and the Role of Labour: Our Ecological, Social, and Economic Future”
28 - 30 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa