Essays about: "Precarious Employment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words Precarious Employment.

  1. 1. Education Reforms and Social Outcomes : The Impact of the Reforms on Hong Kong Students’ Concerns and Future Perspectives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Giovanni Mauri; [2023]
    Keywords : Educational Reforms; Inequalities; Competitivity; Precariousness; Student Perceptions; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The structural reforms of the curriculum implemented by the Hong Kong administration in the field of education at the beginning of the 2000s had profound implications for the future perspectives and ambitions of students and graduates. This thesis tries to investigate the key constraints posed by the reforms and their direct influence on Hong Kong local student’s perception of their future careers. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘Overcoming Hopelessness’: Asylum Seekers’ Experiences of Precarity and Empowerment in Sweden

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

    Author : Hugo Fritjofsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Sweden; asylum; migration; qualitative; refugees; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Sweden has long been seen as a generous, inclusive provider for refugees, historically granting social rights on par with citizens shortly upon arrival. However, extensive recent academic literature has come to critique this perception, highlighting retrenchments and restrictive developments in asylum policy amid increasing precarity for asylum seekers. READ MORE

  4. 3. Choices and Rules in Informality : A case study on public policy implementation and obstacles to formalizing the domestic work sector in Argentina

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Tilda Rådström; [2023]
    Keywords : Domestic workers; domestic work sector; informal work; public policy implementation; social policy; financial incentives; informal institutions; rational choice theory; Argentina; Trabajadoras domésticas; sector del trabajo doméstico; trabajo informal; implementación de políticas; política social; incentivos financieros; instituciones informales; teoría de la elección racional; Argentina;

    Abstract : This study reviews Rational Choice theory and Informal Institutions theory and uses new data to explain the persistence and scale of Argentina's informal domestic work sector. The domestic work sector in Argentina represents a typical case in Latin America: almost entirely dominated by women and high informality levels. READ MORE

  5. 4. Impact of a Precarious Employment Situation on Short-term Fertility Intentions: A Comparative Study of Migrants and Natives in Sweden

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Mimmi Lounela; [2023]
    Keywords : precarious employment; unemployment; short-term fertility intentions; migrants; Swedish-born;

    Abstract : Over the past decades, the world has witnessed significant social and demographic changes, including a declining fertility rate in Europe, a decrease in job security and flexibilisation of the labour market, and an increasing flow of migrants to the Global North. Especially migrants have been affected by precarious work arrangements. READ MORE

  6. 5. Fixed-term workers: entitled to (un)fair and (un)predictable working conditions?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Annika Consiglio; [2022]
    Keywords : Working conditions; fixed-term workers; precarious work; social policy; EU law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The balance between increasingly flexible working methods and sufficiently strong social protection for workers within the EU is a complex balancing act that exposes legislators at EU level to major challenges, especially in light of the EU's limited competence in labor law. In recent years, however, the focus on the most modern forms of precarious employment forms has overshadowed other forms of atypical employment, which nevertheless runs the risk of being exposed to unfair working conditions. READ MORE