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| [Opinion] A qui profite le mythe du plein emploi en Suisse? | switzerland | Le Temps (08.08.2017) La Suisse est en situation de plein emploi! C’est en tout cas ce que disent les statistiques mensuelles du Secrétariat à l’économie (Seco) de la Confédération: le taux de chômage se situe en moyenne autour des 3% au niveau national. Certains cantons latins (Genève, Vaud,… |
https://blogs.letemps.ch/gregoire-barbey/2017/08/07/le-mythe-du-plein-emploi | monitor | ||||||
| [Opinion] France: Revenu universel : une nouvelle protection sociale pour le XXIe siècle ? | france | AgoraVox (01.08.2017) Depuis la dernière élection présidentielle, la vieille idée d’un revenu d’existence versé inconditionnellement à tout citoyen, durant sa vie, au nom de l’égalité des droits et en vertu de son appartenance à l’humanité, refait surface – et débat. Se battre pour « l’emploi »… |
Extension of coverage, Social policies & programmes | basic income, published | http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/revenu-universel-une-nouvelle-1955… | monitor | ||||
| Estados Unidos: Rosselló quiere "transformar" el sistema de salud en Puerto Rico | United States | El Nuevo Día (05.08.2017) El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, convirtió hoy con su firma en ley seis proyectos dirigidos a mejorar el acceso a los servicios de salud. |
Health, Health insurance, Extension of coverage | extending coverage, published | https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/politica/nota/rosselloquieretrasnformarelsi… | monitor | ||||
| Zambia: State urged to increase social protection funding | zambia | Zambia Daily Mail (01.08.2017) Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR) associate researcher Malindi Chatora said unlike social protection, FISP targets viable farmers and not necessarily poor growers. |
Financing | published | https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/state-urged-to-increase-social-protection-funding | monitor | ||||
| Occupational pesticide exposure tied to lung disease | Times of Malta (01.08.2017) Workers exposed to pesticides and herbicides on the job may be more likely than other people to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis and other breathing problems, an Australian study suggests. |
Occupational accidents and diseases | published | https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170801/health-fitness/Occupational… | monitor | |||||
| Belgique: Quelle Sécurité sociale voulons-nous ? | belgium | sudinfo (05.08.2017) Dans l’esprit du grand public, la Sécurité sociale est trop souvent associée à une image abîmée et négative. La nouvelle plateforme « Prenons soin de nous » veut en finir avec ça |
Information and communication technology, Governance and administration | published | http://www.sudinfo.be/1899976/article/2017-08-02/quelle-securite-sociale-voulon… | monitor | ||||
| What have we learned about helping women with conditional cash transfers? | argentina | iloblog.org (30.07.2017) During an economic crisis, Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are one way that governments can use to protect vulnerable people from falling into poverty. |
Conditional cash transfers, Inequalities | published, cct, family_gender_society | https://iloblog.org/2017/06/30/what-have-we-learned-about-helping-women-with-co… | monitor | ||||
| Zimbabwe: Zesa pension fund targets small towns | zimbabwe | The Chronicle (28.07.2017) The Zimbabwe Electricity Industry Pension Fund (ZEIPF) is targeting investing in infrastructure projects in small towns across the country. |
Pensions, Investment | http://www.chronicle.co.zw/zesa-pension-fund-targets-small-towns | monitor | |||||
| United States: Preventing the "King of Occupational Diseases" | United States | markets.businessinsider (08.08.2017) The construction industry has had one year to become compliant with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) respirable crystalline silica regulations. That compliance deadline has been extended from June 23, 2017, until September 23, 2017, to… |
Occupational accidents and diseases | http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Preventing-the-King-of-Occupatio… | monitor | |||||
| Schweiz: Altersvorsorge 2020 - die richtige Vorlage zur Sicherung der Renten? | switzerland | swissinfo (05.08.2017) Die Überalterung der Bevölkerung, weniger Wirtschaftswachstum und tiefe Zinsen bedrohen die Renten in der Schweiz. Nach zahlreichen gescheiterten Versuchen schlagen nun Regierung und Parlamentsmehrheit eine umfassende Reform der Altersvorsorge vor. Ziel: die Sicherung der… |
managing reforms, published | https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/direktedemokratie/abstimmung-24--september-2017_al… | monitor | |||||
| India: Occupational Health survey reveals alarming numbers | india | DNA India (25.07.2017) As per the data, over 132 workers under the Factories Act, 1948, and nine workers under the Mines Act, 1952 were affected in the last three years |
Occupational accidents and diseases | published | http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-occupational-health-survey-reveals-alarmin… | monitor | ||||
| Number of homeless in Britain expected to double by 2041, Crisis warns | Society | The Guardian (10.08.2017) Charity’s research predicts 575,000 people in Britain will have no roof over their heads unless government takes urgent action |
poverty | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/aug/10/uk-homeless-expected-double-204… | monitor | ||||||
| Ultimate Guide to Gig Economy Data: A Summary of Every Freelance Study We Can Find | United States | How many people are in the gig economy? We’re very interested in this question at Nation1099, and, as it happens, it isn’t an easy question to find answers to, especially since the gig economy is growing and changing very fast and people mean many different things by the term. Employment in… |
Employment, Data management | digital platforms | Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | http://nation1099.com/gig-economy-data-freelancer-study/ | ruggia | |||
| WWP Quick Question: Who can access the data from Brazil’s Unified Registry? - YouTube | brazil | Brazil Learning Initiative for a World without Poverty (WWP) ( 18.07.2017) Data on some 27 million Brazilian families are retained in a single registry - the Unified Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico) - a useful tool for identifying and describing the socioeconomic conditions of low-… |
Data on some 27 million Brazilian families are retained in a single registry - the Unified Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico) - a useful tool for identifying and describing the socioeconomic conditions of low-income families. |
Information and communication technology, Data management | data management, digital economy | Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ieea74Iaog | massetti | ||
| How biology and technology can impact our health | Americas, Asia, Europe | Swiss Re Institute (07.07.2017) We live in a world with increasingly uncertain health outcomes. Individuals from developed economies have been living longer for many decades. However, those gains are beginning to be reversed in some countries,… |
LifeQ takes sensor data from wearables or smart phones into its analytics and modeling cloud to come to its initial risk assessment. Using huge data sets and sophisticated algorithms, hundreds of data outputs are produced, which are summarised into easy to digest features specific for the insuran |
Health, Health insurance | digital platforms | Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | http://institute.swissre.com/research/library/Summary_Nashina_Asaria_Bacorn.html | -treichel | ||
| Au-delà des fantasmes, quels sont les problèmes concrets que pose l’intelligence artificielle ? | Les récents progrès de ces technologies posent, dès à présent, des questions moins spectaculaires, mais bien plus concrètes. Par MORGANE TUAL Temps de lecture : 9 min « Je n’arrête pas de tirer la sonnette d’alarme, mais tant que les gens ne verront pas des robots descendre dans la rue… |
Information and communication technology, Technological transition | artificial intelligence | http://mobile.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/08/03/au-dela-des-fantasmes-quels-… | ruggia | |||||
| Technology, jobs, and the future of work | McKinsey Global Institute (31.05.2017) Automation, digital platforms, and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work. Understanding these shifts can help policy makers, business leaders, and workers move forward. The world of work is in a state of flux, which is… |
Employment, Unemployment, Employment of young workers, Migration | migration, robotization, self-employed | Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR, Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_DOCUMENTS | http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/technology-jobs-and… | ruggia | ||||
| Productivity, Employment, and Inequality | MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy | United States | What will the workforce of the future look like, and how can we accelerate the transformation of institutions, organizations, and human skills to keep up with the quickening pace of digital innovation? Understanding the future of the workforce in a rapidly changing global economy The IDE… |
Employment | self-employed | http://ide.mit.edu/research-pillars/productivity-employment-and-inequality | lasalle | ||||
| Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges? | Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe | Can a universal basic income resolve future income security challenges? Universal basic income approaches are currently high on the agenda as possible policy options to resolve the income security challenges that emerge on the one hand from new forms of work in the wake of digitalization and… |
There is a wide diversity of proposals on the table, which drastically differ in terms of the level of the proposed basic income, the prospective recipients, financing modalities, and the benefits and services that such a universal basic income would replace, as well as on the expected economic a |
Extension of coverage, Inequalities | basic income, contribution collection, coverage, universal-basic-income | http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/multimedia/audio/WCMS_561707/lang--en/i… | -treichel | |||
| Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy - Income volatility | United States | JPMorgan Chase Institute. February 2016 Paychecks, Paydays, and the Online Platform Economy . Americans experience tremendous income volatility, and that volatility is on the rise. Income volatility matters because it is hard to manage. The typical household faces a shortfall… |
Employment | self-employed | https://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/institute/report-paychecks-paydays-and-… | ruggia | ||||
| Argentina’s Young Freelance Economy Means Some Uncertainty, But It’s a Valuable Growth Opportunity - Hiring | Upwork | argentina | How can you get started as a freelancer when the path in your country is unclear? In a series of posts, we’ve invited freelancers from around the world to share tips and best practices they’ve learned along the way. In this post, Leo Brambilla talks about his experience as an Argentinian… |
Employment | freelance, self-employed | https://www.upwork.com/hiring/for-freelancers/freelancing-in-argentina/ | ruggia | ||||
| Freelancers in the U.S. workforce : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | United States | Editor’s note: This essay is part of a series being published to help commemorate the Monthly Labor Review’s centennial (July 1915–July 2015). The essays―written by eminent authorities and distinguished experts in a broad range of fields―cover a variety of topics pertinent to the Review and the… |
Employment | freelance, self-employed | https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/freelancers-in-the-us-workforce.htm | ruggia | ||||
| The South Centre • South Unity, South Progress | Africa, latin america, Asia | policy reponse | https://www.southcentre.int/ | ruggia | ||||||
| EUR-Lex (European Union laws) - Search results | Europe | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?qid=1498473330288&text=social%20security&s… | ruggia | |||||||
| Forrester Predicts Automation Will Displace 24.7 Million Jobs And Add 14.9 Million Jobs By 2027 | forrester.com (03.04.2017) Forrester released an update to its Future Of Jobs research, which predicts how robots, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) will… |
Unemployment | Published_DIGITAL_Eco_Obs_MONITOR | https://www.forrester.com/Forrester+Predicts+Automation+Will+Displace+247+Milli… | -brener |