#jobalert: The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is seeking to recruit a full-time Researcher on Ergonomics and working conditions - deadline to apply is the 16th of September, read all the details here etui.org/about-etui/ten… and get your CV updated and ready to join us

Great presentation by Young-Hwan Byun #ESPAnet2024 on the link between educational premia and coordinated collective bargaining - showing that coordination does not necessarily reduce differences in lays it depends on union membership

Second day at #ESPAnet2024. Starting with interesting presentation by Laura Naegele on participation in training which is linked to longer working lives. She shows people's own beliefs about aging and whether they are too old, limit employment partly through less training taken

Looking forward to present new work on country variation in take-up of platform work with Bianca Luna Fabris #ESPAnet2024 this afternoon. Do join us if you're interested at 4.30 (room a2b). More information on ETUI - European Trade Union Institute survey on platforms: etui.org/etui-internet-…

Interesting presentation by Birgit Pfau-Effinger #ESPAnet2024 on how cultural ideas about the unemployed - seeing them as receiving their deserved social rights, individuals in a temporary crisis, or work refusers - shaped policies in Germany, particularly with Hartz IV

Janine Leshcke presents great work #ESPAnet2024 on intra-EU movers and their risks of over-qualification. She shows this risk is much higher for women, and especially when using social networks to find work.

Presentation by Nadia Brookes #ESPAnet2024 on their impressive research studying innovations in long-term care through mixed methods

🗣️ ETUI researchers Mehtap Akgüç, Wouter Zwysen & Bianca Luna Fabris present at the #ESPAnet2024 European social policy conference this week (hosted by Tampere University) Their contributions covered 🌱 #EcoSocial policies, 📊 wage #inequality & ✊ European #TradeUnions More info here 🔗

Great keynote by Zach Parolin #ESPAnet2024 on intergenerational persistence of poverty. Shows fascinating research on striking differences between countries in stickiness of poverty, with important role for welfare state

Great presentation by Albert Varela #ESPAnet2024 on the link between computer use or digitalisation and work intensity, showing key differences between but also within countries. Overall, within a country an increase in computer use is associated with more intense work

Very interesting presentation by Lien Steyaert #ESPAnet2024 with a focus on poverty among self-employed, a group we leave out too often. She highlights complexity in measuring income correctly, which leads to no clear relation between income on paper and actual living standards

Final session of the day at #ESPAnet2024, with interesting presentation by Sonja Ruottonen on the wellbeing of longterm unemployed in Finland

Interesting presentation by Takesh Nishimura and Mayuko Kitai #ESPAnet2024 on how labour unions moderated covid-19 teleworking in Japan

Last session at #ESPAnet2024 kicked off with great presentation by Enrico Benassi on how making firing and dismissals easier in Italy affects hiring in Italy, showing it did not make the labour market necessarily more inclusive.

Final and very interesting presentation in this session at #ESPAnet2024 by Kilian Van Looy on temporary work as a stepping stond to open ended employment in Belgium particularly for migrant workers

What's a 'woman's job'? It's not only the 🇪🇺 European Commission struggling with #GenderEquality in the workforce ♀️♂️ Women face disadvantages throughout the #LabourMarket, due in large part to the segregation of men and women into different jobs - and the often poorer conditions

New report on regional employment and telework differences across EU. If interested, recent ETUI - European Trade Union Institute book addresses different aspects of remote work including legal, the link with the green transition, and the scope for widening inequality (not always) etui.org/publications/f….

Interesting and important indeed to see non-competes noted in the Draghi report - a sizeable share of workers across Europe are by such non-compete clauses which limit their bargaining position even if not enforceable. Regulation now differs strongly across EU EUROCADRES