Analyse changes and trends in the labour market is a key element to designing policies capable of generating more and better jobs. In notus-asr we study the labour market paying particular attention to the analysis of the quality of employment and existing inequalities, especially those related to gender and age. Through a multidisciplinary approach that includes specialists in quantitative and qualitative methodology, we strive to produce knowledge that can be politically useful.
Industrial relations are a defining element of the European social model which allows the collective regulation of employment relations. In notus-asr we research industrial relations at European and national levels, highlighting the importance of a comparative perspective. Our intention is to generate knowledge that can strengthen and make social dialogue and collective bargaining more effective at different levels.
Some of the projects in this area are:
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The definition of worker in the platform economy.
This research aims to contribute to debates on platform work, and national and EU regulatory responses to improve labour rights and social protections for platform workers and other non-standard workers.
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The involvement of social partners in policymaking during the COVID-19 outbreakThis study focuses on the involvement of social partners in the formation and/or implementation of those policy measures adopted and implemented during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
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PROMOTE: promoting collaboration and good practice in posting of workers in the agriculture sectorThe project studies and promotes transnational trade union and institutional cooperation actions to ensure the correct application of the Posting of Workers Directive in the agriculture sector
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Crowd-work – Finding new strategies to organise labour in EuropeCrowd-work – Finding new strategies to organise labour in Europe. The rising of platform-work creates many difficulties to represent and organize crowd workers and challenges the traditional forms of organized labour and the European social model
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Composite indicator on industrial relations
Building a composite indicator on industrial relations for mapping social dialogue at national level. Study commissioned by Eurofound.
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Evaluation of active labour market policies
Evaluation of the impact of active labour market policies in the Community of Madrid in 2010, 2012, and 2012