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Government approves amendments to Estonia's parental leave, benefits system

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News ERR (29.09.2017) The Estonian government at its Wednesday meeting approved proposals for amendments to the law which would extend paternal benefits as well as make the country's parental leave and benefits system in general more flexible.

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estonia
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Family benefits
Parental leave
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Rire au travail rend-il les salariés plus performants?

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Le Temps (18.10.2017) L’humour est un baromètre de l’état de santé d’une entreprise. Bien manié, il permet de motiver les troupes et renforce la cohésion d’équipe

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Health
Health promotion
Occupational accidents and diseases
Workplace health promotion

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Silicon Valley Pushes the Wrong Kind of Basic Income

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bloomberg.com (10.08.2017) ' People and nations don't have to accept a future in which a small group of companies -- and, let's face it, successful tech firms are a small, oligopolistic group -- controls the fruits of what they call progress. It's up to them to tax and regulate the monopolies and oligopolies. The opaque digital advertising business, for example, is under-regulated and possibly based on false claims about audience sizes. Killing U.S.

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Documentaire TV : « Un monde sans travail »

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Le Monde (11.10.2017) De la Bretagne à ­Pittsburgh en passant par Bruxelles, San Francisco, le Tarn ou la Suisse, cet instructif documentaire à travers la planète, coécrit par Noël Mamère et Philippe ­Borrel, a de quoi inquiéter des ­millions de travailleurs. On savait les moins qualifiés déjà durement touchés par le chômage de masse en raison de la robotisation et des machines « intelligentes », plus fiables et moins coûteuses que les ­humains. En faisant témoigner des manutentionnaires, les auteurs mettent des mots sur les maux du travail d’aujourd’hui.

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Deutschland: Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen: Digitale Patientenakte von Patienten und Ärzten gewünscht

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it-finanzmagazin (25.09.2017)  Eine Studie zur Digitalisierung im Gesund­heits­wesen (Download) zeige oftmals noch eine große Lücke zwischen Anspruch und Realität. Versicherte der Privaten Krankenversicherung (PKV) wünschen sich häufig eine digitale Abrechnung, Ärzte sind dabei aber noch sehr zögerlich. Eine elektronische Patientenakte würden aber sowohl Ärzte als auch Patienten sehr begrüßen und sehen darin mehrere Vorteile.

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germany
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Health
Service quality
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Business processes
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Macronisme, l’ubérisation de la protection sociale et l’Etat plateforme | Le Club de Mediapart

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Mediapart (01.10.2017) Macronisme, l’ubérisation de la protection sociale et l’Etat plateforme : Les dessous d’une disruption à la française. Analyse proposée par Matthieu Montalban, membre du comité d'animation des Économistes atterrés.

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france
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Employment policies
Human resource management
Social policies & programmes
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Economic impact
Labour market
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After Falcon Funds - Big PPM changes expected by June - Investment Europe

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Pension funds fraud in Swedish Premium pension framework

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sweden
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Pensions
Population ageing
Investment
Financing
Error, evasion and fraud
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India: Savings via DBT cross Rs 58k cr mark: Ravi Shankar Prasad

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 The Economic Times (28.09.2017)  Government has saved Rs 58,000 crore through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme used in various subsidy programmes, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. The electronics and IT minister said the government is utilising digital technology to bring about changes that benefit poor and underprivileged.

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india
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Technological transition
Service delivery
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Service delivery
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Uber tells tribunal self-employed drivers not ‘novel or unusual’

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ft.com (27.09.2017) Ride-hailing app seeks to overturn ruling on status of UK workers

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united kingdom
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
Labour market
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