A composite indicator Working conditions for comparing European countries is constructed from data of the Third European Survey on Working Conditions. The main findings are as follows: (a) European countries differ with respect to working conditions statistically more significantly than with...

The composite indicator "Quality of work" for comparing European countries is con- structed from data of the Third European Survey on Working Conditions. The main findings are as follows: (a) European countries differ with respect to working conditions statistically more significantly than with...

Composite indicators of Decent work for 31 European countries are constructed with the data of the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey 2005 (EWCS 2005). Partial indices reflect 15 aspects of working conditions as in the recently published German DGBindex Gute-Arbeit. In a sense, the German...

The Fourth European Working Conditions Survey (European Foundation 2007) is used to investigate the readiness of Europe to flexicurity labour market reforms proposed by the European Commission (= flexibilization of employment relations compensated by improvements in employment security backed up...

Das Diskussionspapier gibt einen Überblick über die Befragungsergebnisse der WSI-Betriebsrätebefragung 2007 zum Thema Standortverlagerung und Ausgliederung. Die Analyse stellt zum einen das Ausmaß und die Struktur der Verlagerungen und Ausgliederungen in deutschen Betrieben mit Betriebsrat...

Psychische Arbeitsbelastungen, besonders zunehmender Leistungsdruck, Stress und Mobbing, nehmen deutlich zu und rücken damit ins Blickfeld des Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes. Der Gesetzgeber hat 1996 mit dem auf Gesundheitsprävention erweiterten Arbeitsschutzgesetzt reagiert. Und trotzdem...

The composite indicator "Quality of work" for comparing European countries is constructed from data of the Third European Survey on Working Conditions. The main findings are as follows: (a) European countries differ with respect to working conditions statistically more significantly than with...

The introduction of monetary variables into post-Keynesian models of distribution and growth is an ongoing process. Lavoie (1995) has proposed a Kaleckian ?Minsky-Steindl-model? of distribution and growth, incorporating the effects debt and debt services have on short and long run capital...