Essays about: "Minimum wage"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 33 essays containing the words Minimum wage.

  1. 6. Tobacco Smoking and Exercising Habits: What Has Socioeconomic Status Got to Do With It?

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Andreas Andersson; Veronica Nelson; [2021]
    Keywords : Health Behavior; Smoking; Exercise; Socioeconomic Status;

    Abstract : There is a large and growing literature regarding unhealthy lifestyle habits and their relationship with socioeconomic status. In this paper, we build on previous literature by exploiting the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 and adding the notion of immediate socioeconomic changes to analyze the causal effect of commonly used measures of socioeconomic status on tobacco smoking and exercising habits. READ MORE

  3. 7. Are trade unions winners or losers in EU policymaking? : A study of ETUC’s and BusinessEurope’s relative influence in the EU consultation of social partners under article 154 TFEU

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Signe Wolf; [2021]
    Keywords : EU; trade union; 154 TFEU; ETUC; BusinessEurope; Influence; European Commission; workers influence; minimum wage; social partners; social dialogue;

    Abstract : This thesis investigated the influence imbalance between worker’s and employer’s interest in the EU policymaking. It is assumed that worker’s interests are disadvantaged, and this study is therefore examining the consultation of social partners under article 154 TFEU that considers social policy and can be used as a most-likely case for worker’s influence. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Debate of Decent Work in Emerging Economies: Minimum Wage Policy in South Africa.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Elliot Mackenzie; [2021]
    Keywords : Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There exists considerable debate on the utility of ILO’s decent work agenda and its four pillars of full employment, rights at work, social dialogue, and social protection in the context of emerging economies. Whether these pillars be achieved in unison or if there a need to prioritize a pillar over another and whether the notion as a whole is complementary with other development objectives like economic growth is dependant on how an emerging economy understand the issue at hand, which is itself a function of the historical and socioeconomic context in which the labor markets exists within. READ MORE

  5. 9. Boshoti (Habitation)

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Arif Reza; [2021]
    Keywords : Housing for low income people;

    Abstract : The thesis project is intended for the investigation of the global housing crisis and the issues that lay behind it. The beneficiary should be the people living under the minimum local wage. Although the people serving the city has great importance, due to the socio economic imbalance these people are forgotten. READ MORE

  6. 10. POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS OF BANNING TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN THE GERMAN MEAT INDUSTRY

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Boglárka Takács; [2021]
    Keywords : risk society thesis; individualization thesis; individual survival strategies; German meat industry; precariat; migrant workers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The German meat industry is a popular labour market destination for unskilled Eastern and Middle European workers. The precarious employment and housing conditions, exacerbated by a staggering number of COVID-19 infections, received immense media attention in 2020. READ MORE