Search results for ""Author Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo""

Hasta qué punto estamos asistiendo al desmantelamiento del Estado de Bienestar? Cuáles son los verdaderos factores que pueden afectar a sus recursos y su viabilidad?Dividido en tres partes, el presente libro ofrece una visión de conjunto, accesible al lector no especializado, sobre el Estado de Bienestar. En primer lugar, aborda las razones históricas que explican su aparición en los países de renta alta, así como sus características y diferencias. A continuación, examina los distintos desafíos a los que se enfrenta el Estado de Bienestar, desde su compatibilidad con el capitalismo actual, la globalización, los cambios demográficos y la necesidad de adoptar una perspectiva de género más inclusiva hasta la economía digital y las transformaciones del mercado de trabajo. Por último, analiza algunos ejemplos de cambio en el Estado de Bienestar de cuatro países: Alemania, Suecia, Reino Unido y España, y reflexiona sobre posibles escenarios futuros.

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Mainstream economics traditionally restricts the analysis of the labor market to purely monetary factors, such as earnings, leaving aside many other characteristics which might affect the desirability of certain jobs. By contrast, this original book aims to explore the alternatives and problems faced by researchers in quantifying and measuring a broader notion of job quality. The main objective is to analyze the different approaches to measurement and to analyze both the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods within a European context. Specifically, the book presents a unique new index of job quality and applies it to the EU Member States. The index proves particularly useful to measure the differences in job quality by country, occupation, gender and age. Based on solid theory and data, this book will prove essential for postgraduate students, researchers and academics of labor economics, sociology, industrial relations, and European studies as it presents a coherent discussion of the concept and components of job quality, and of the difficulties of measuring it. The book also proposes a new aggregate index of job quality that can contribute to the evaluation of European employment policies and performance that will appeal to European policy circles.

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