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Selected AbstractsAre non-union workers different to their union colleagues?INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 3 2006Evidence from the public services ABSTRACT This article analyses workers' attitudes to trade unions by comparing the survey responses of Unison members with public sector workers who have left or never joined a union. It examines whether differences between these groups can help to explain union-joining behaviour and membership patterns. The findings demonstrate that there are few differences in attitudes between Unison members, ex-unionists and never-members on the issue of ,union effectiveness'. However, ex-unionists were more reluctant to re-join unions than never-members. The evidence concludes that if public service unions are to recruit new members, they need to adopt differentiated strategies and representatives have to target ex-unionists and never-members in the workplace. [source] New avenues to be opened for social protection in the Arab world: the case of Egypt,INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE, Issue 1 2004Markus Loewe This article looks at social protection in the Arab world. Giving the example of Egypt, it asks why poverty is so widespread and why , despite the country's numerous social protection systems , social risks are a major contributing factor to it. It concludes that reforms are due. The existing systems are well funded but inefficient and more to the benefit of the better-off than the poor. A reform approach is proposed which builds on both conventional and more innovative strategies: campaigns should be launched to raise public awareness of social risks; social assistance spending should be increased; and the operating public pension schemes should be reformed. At the same time, new avenues have to be opened to meet the specific needs of informal sector workers who have extreme difficulty in being covered by social insurance or social assistance. To this purpose, micro-insurance is a promising approach for the Arab-world region. [source] Age differences in career activities among higher-level employees in the Netherlands: a comparison between profit sector and non-profit sector staffINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 2 2006Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria Van Der Heijden The present study describes age differences in the occurrence of career activities among profit sector and non-profit sector employees in the Netherlands. Three different types of variables have been studied, i.e. individual, job-related and organizational variables. Hypotheses have been tested with original survey data from 423 profit sector employees and 136 non-profit sector employees. The employees are all working in higher-level jobs in large organizations. Overall, we may conclude from this study that the differences between profit sector and non-profit sector workers are not consistent at all. For some factors the situation is more advantageous for profit sector employees, whereas for other factors the outcomes point in the opposite direction. Regarding age effects, we have found that, in general, for profit sector employees the differences between starters (20,34 years) and middle-aged workers (35,49 years) are not univocal, whereas the differences between middle-aged workers and seniors (over-fifties) imply that the amount of individual initiatives and organizational activities is less for the latter group of employees. When the three age groups are compared for the non-profit sector employees, most factors do not vary significantly. For the factors where the F-test is found to be significant, by and large, the situation regarding the possibilities for a further career development is worst for the seniors. [source] Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in India,JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 3 2007Elena Glinskaya Abstract This study uses 1993,94 and 1999,2000 rounds of India Employment and Unemployment survey to investigate wage differentials between the public and private sectors. To obtain robust estimates of the wage differential, we apply three econometric techniques each relying on a different set of assumptions about the process of job selection and wage formation. All three methods show that differences in wages between public sector workers and workers in the formal-private and informal-casual sectors are positive and high. On average, the public sector premium ranges between 62 and 102 per,cent over the private-formal sector, and between 164 and 259 per,cent over the informal-casual sector, depending on the choice of methodology. The wage differentials in India tend to be higher in rural as compared to urban areas, and are higher among women than among men. The wage differential also tends to be higher for low-skilled workers. There is considerable evidence of an increase in the wage differential between 1993,1994 and 1999,2000. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Sleep disturbances as a predictor of occupational injuries among public sector workersJOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH, Issue 1p2 2010SIMO SALMINEN Summary The association between disturbed sleep and increased risk of occupational injury has been observed in several cross-sectional and case,control studies, but prospective evidence is lacking. We examined prospectively whether sleep disturbances predicted occupational injuries in a large population of Finnish public sector employees. A total of 48 598 employees working in 10 municipalities and 21 hospitals in various parts of Finland were included. Sleep disturbances were assessed with the four-item Jenkins Sleep Problems Scale. Records of sickness absence due to occupational injury during the year following the survey were obtained from employers' registers. A proportion (9076; 22%) of participants reported disturbed sleep, and 978 (2.4%) had a recorded occupational injury. After adjustment for socio-demographic characteristics, the odds ratio (OR) for occupational injury was 1.38 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.02,1.87] times higher for men with experiences of disturbed sleep than for those without sleep disturbances, but not significant for women. Of the sub-dimensions of sleep disturbances, the OR for occupational injury was 1.69 (95% CI 1.26,2.26) for women with difficulties initiating sleep, but not significant for men. These associations remained after additional adjustment for work stress, sleep length, obesity, alcohol use and mental health. This study suggests that sleep disturbances are a significant predictor of occupational injuries even after accounting for a range of covariates. [source] From Insurrectionary Worker to Contingent Citizen: restructuring labor markets and repositioning East Rand (South Africa) retail sector workersCITY & SOCIETY, Issue 1 2003Bridget Kenny Cities in South Africa, engineered as they were through apartheid, have fundamentally defined experiences of work, residence, leisure, and collective organization of urban and rural dwellers alike. Within the distinctive spaces of urban centers, citizens encounter the more recent difficulties of global economic restructuring as well as the potential to create their own opposition to increased marginalization. Using workplace interviews and life histories conducted from 1998-2000 of retail sector workers on the East Rand, South Africa, this paper focuses on the changing "local labor market." From a focal point of an organized, democratic union movement linked to community anti-apartheid struggles, more recently the region has undergone de-industrialization exacerbated by increasing "flexibilized" service employment and directed investment to other centers, like Johannesburg's rapidly developing north. The article explores how East Rand worker-residents experience an increasingly contingent labor market through shifting identities as workers and as men and women. [South Africa, retail industry, East Rand, deindustrialization, labor markets, gender, globalization] [source] | |||||||||||||