Author name: debbie.w.collier

Author: Adele Bianco
Date of Publication:  2014

The paper assigns a key role to job quality in fostering social development and sustainability. It focuses on two issues: working conditions and the greening of work, and argues that the transition towards a green economy requires the production and employment sectors to undergo a reconversion process. The green economy, it is suggested, can offer new development opportunities to developed as well as emerging countries and create new demands for skills development. [View Resource]

Author: Esther Sanchez Torres
Date of Publication: 2010

One of the primary problems with law in general is how to adjust protection levels to suit reality, so that it succeeds in establishing general, abstract regulations that might become permanent. [View Resource]

Author: Jaime Cabeza Pereiro
Date of Publication: 2008

Spain’s Self-Employed Workers’ Statute came into force in July 2007. The legislation identifies a category of workers who have traditionally been excluded from the scope of labour law; and represents an innovative experiment. [View Resource]

Author: Fabio M. Bertranou
Date of Publication: 2007

This article reviews the labour situation of independent workers 2 regarding social security coverage in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. These workers account for approximately 24 per cent of the employed labour force and most of them work in the informal economy. The scope of social protection for independent workers has become a relevant issue in the reform agendas for the social security systems. Low coverage among this heterogeneous group of workers, together with the difficulties of implementing effective policies and strategies that will allow for increased coverage, have created the need to evaluate the different dimensions that are involved in the design of social security programs. Even though Argentine and Uruguayan workers have mandatory legal coverage through a general scheme and also a simplified scheme directed at small contributors, the overall results have been poor. [View Resource]