While many European states have over the past decade developed specific policies to actively promote the development of the formal market of home-based care services through the introduction of cash-for-care schemes, vouchers or different socio-fiscal measures in order to diminish grey economy, create formal employments and support work and family balance, Slovenia did not take that route. Instead of investing public money in supporting the demand side and developing private markets of care, Slovenia, though reluctantly and ambivalently, continues to support public and mixed system of home-based care. Based on comparison of evaluation studies of subsidizing schemes for home-based care in selected European countries and in Slovenia the paper discusses pros and cons of policy framing of home-based care services as public good or as market commodity from the perspective of quality of employments for care workers.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 1081453The authors examine changes in the working conditions, qualifications required, and education in the workplace of employees in the three branches (paper production, printing and publishing) following the outbreak of the crisis in 2008/2009. The authors examine how the three branches responded to the crisis regarding the employment and work intensity; and how workers perceive the working conditions in the new circumstances. These issues are presented with three in-depth case studies of enterprises. For research, authors used research methods, like semi-structured interviews with managers and workers’ representatives, and a survey among workers in selected companies. Two important conclusions are drawn from the analysis. Firstly, a high rate of workers’ participation in the workplace education does not automatically mean greater orientation of the companies in the development of workers’ skills, as it may be a lateral effect of deskilling. Secondly, the reduction of the number of employees (or a slight increase in the number of employees in the case of the printing company) is directly proportional to the intensity of the work.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 33352029Presentation of conceptual results of the analyses from the area of professionalization and precarisation of work of higher education graduates: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy 19-21 March 2015.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
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