approximately half of employees over the world work in the gender specific jobs where at least 80 percent of the employees belong to the same gender. in fact, non-agricultural jobs specific to men are seven times more than those of women. this phenomenon shows inflexibility of job market it leads to the reduction in especially for women and decreases the economic efficiency (anker, 1998). gende...

BACKGROUND Climate change and environmental degradation are seriously jeopardizing the future environmental and economic sustainability at the global level prompting urgent calls for a shift towards more sustainable development and greener economies. The use of the so called green jobs is a key strategy to overcome economic and ecological crisis. AIM The present study discusses the implicatio...

Motivation The Sustainable Development Goals targets include decent work for all by 2030 but progress in sub-Saharan Africa has been slow. Over the past five years, platform sector (e-hailing platforms particular) expanded considerably on continent, providing opportunities to growing urban populations. quality of this work, however, is heavily contested. Purpose We deepen and extend our underst...

All advanced industrial nations appear to be experiencing a jobs problem. There simply appear to be too few decent employment opportunities to go around. This difficulty manifests itself somewhat differently in different countries. But no Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) nation appears to have been able to fully escape rising wage inequality (sometimes coupled with d...

Work, under fair employment and decent work, reduces inequities in health. Nowadays it seems, however, that obtaining and carrying out a job and worker performance take precedence over the aforementioned attributes. Workers are not only exposed to accidents, diseases caused by various agents, ergonomic and psychosocial risks but also affected by work modes imposed by the "wildmarket", such as t...

Globalization has added a powerful new dimension to the link between development and the four dimensions of decent work--basic labour rights and standards, employment, socioeconomic security, and social dialogue. Pre-globalization, the mainstream view was that successful development would clearly imply progress on the two economic dimensions of decent work, namely employment and socioeconomic s...

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...

The global financial crisis provides an opportunity for Australia to undertake reforms which will create a more democratic workplace. This will require a new social settlement between government, employers and unions which not only restores and extends collective bargaining rights but also strengthens workers’ legal rights to participate in decision making at the enterprise level. In the global...