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WageIndicator Gazette 24 - March 2010

- Ambitious women, overqualified in underpaid jobs
- 433 different job & salary pages
- World Database of ISCO Occupations (WISCO)
- German industries shrink due to recession
- Work overload for nursing staff
- Decent Work-project kick off in Mozambique

WageIndicator Gazette 23 - December 2009

- Media alliances in Poland, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Southern Africa
- Decent Work Checks in 14 countries, Salary Checks in 25
- Gender pay gap wide as everHow representative are Wage Indicator data?
- Decisions for Life-project extends over all of Southern Africa
- Cooperation with trade union movement intensifies
- Wage Indicator team sponsors Lucky Stars in Gugulethu

WageIndicator Gazette 22 - September 2009

- Improving the web-survey methodology for social and cultural research
- Project: Decisions for Life aimed at young female workers well under way
- Decent Work Check available in 10 countries, more to come
- Independent media partner in Belarus for Mojazarplata.by
- Partner Check for young working women
- MSN and Tusalario reinforce each other
- WageIndicator launches in Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Indonesia

WageIndicator Gazette 21 - April 2009

- Euroccupations to standardize 1500 occupations across borders
- WageIndicator launch in the Czech Republic
- Purchase Power Parities for cross country comparison in Latin America
- No progress in reducing gender pay gap
- Earnings of German bank clerks just before the crisis
- Elderly workers in the Netherlands feel wanted 

WageIndicator Gazette 20 - January 2009

- 2009 sees effective increase to 45 countries
- Decent Work Report: unpaid overtime and physical stress rule
- Multinational enterprises in EU pay larger premiums than local firms
- In the applied sciences Dutchmen are better off
- Christmas bonus still popular
- AbangAfrica and Go In Africa offer trips for winners

WageIndicator Gazette 19 - September 2008
- Finnish nurses use WageIndicator for industrial action
- Check ready for Decent Work Day October 7th
- Flexible income – who’s afraid?
- WageIndicator in Guatemala and Paraguay jump online
- Children beget money
- Working women in Argentina: 2 worlds apart
- German women engineers are no bridge builders
- Post docs to foster methodology team

WageIndicator Gazette - 18- April 2008
- When unions decline do WageIndicators step in?
- Input for collective bargaining across sectors in the EU
- Global Wage Trend Report to draw on WageIndicator dataset
- Foreign firms generally pay more
- Korea-record: completed questionnaire costs 50 eurocents
- WorkIndicators
- WageIndicator Conference reports

WageIndicator Gazette - 17 - January 2008
- Bi-annual worldwide conference on April 15 and 16 2008
- Lightning take off in Korea
- First Minimum Wage Check with report function online
- Tusalatin brings in 4 additional countries in Latin America and offline research
- Mojazarplata.org reaches out to the whole Russian speaking realm
- Follow up collective bargaining study brings France into the project
- Additional prize money once a year!
- International Longevity Center commissions research tool

WageIndicator Gazette - 16 - October 2007
- Mojazarplata in Russia: hit from the start
- Call centre agents work evening hours and weekends
- Researchers: use the survey for monitoring gender pay gap
- Preparing for a quantum leap to 75 WageIndicator countries
- Equal Pay website in The Netherlands
- Paywizard.org for the USA!

WageIndicator Gazette -15-June 2007
- Job insecurity and temporary work on the increase
- Unions face ignorance amongst young workers but may harvest too
- No time to retire
- Gender pay gap to be found everywhere
- Some jobs make for having children earlier, some don't
- Research results - FP6 - 8 European countries
- Trip to Africa!

WageIndicator Gazette - 14 - April 2007
- 6-country survey shows: 3 out of 10 women in low pay jobs; longer hours, lower pay go together
- European Trade Union issues from dataset debated April 18-20, Amsterdam
- Scaling up the WageIndicator (follow up)
- Britain's Unison: how to campaign better?
- German women massively respond to publicity on gender pay gap
- New women's WageIndicators
- Woliweb ended
- Trip to Africa

WageIndicator Gazette - 13- February 2007
- WageIndicator presented at annual AAAS-meeting
- Scaling up to WageIndicator 75
- Pages for Polish migrant workers
- Launch ItPaycheck in India
- ISCO2008 to be standard for all occupation choosers
- AbangAfrica and GoinAfrica offer trips for prize winners

WageIndicator Gazette - 12 - October 2006
- Preparing for Global wage Monitoring system - 66 countries
- No deliberate gender wage discrimination found in Belgium
- First offline survey under way in India
- Research in EU countries: Bored on the job?
- Fresh updated salary checkers
- Special wageIndicators for women
- Abang Frica and GoInAfrica offer trips for prize winners
- Euroccupations to sytemize up to 2000 occupations in 7 EU member states
- International division of labour in wageIndicator teams takes shape
- Compare your salary with your (local) VIP's

WageIndicator Gazette - 11 - June 2006
Growth target: 25 countries in 2008
- One survey for both formal and informal workers
- Harvard tackles the bias in internet data intake - WageIndicator research (Woliweb): Job insecurity in 6 EU countries
- WageIndicator Research (Woliweb): Collective agreements in 7 EU-countries
- WageIndicator research (Equal): Gender Pay Gap in Belgium
- WageIndicator Research (Woliweb): Overtime in Germany and The Netherlands
- WageIndicator Research: Multinationals in 7 countries
- Marketing the websites through trade union channels
- Trade unions should not claim exclusivity
- Pictures from the conference

WageIndicator Gazette 10 - March 2006
. Research on dutch dataset shows: temporary workers stay alongside till 30, then fall back 30 percent
. Start multinational research on combined datasets
. What does the jet set earn? The VIP Pay Check
. New media deals strengthen national coalitions
. Kea Tijdens appointed professor
. Task Force Equal Pay in the Netherlands

WageIndicator Gazette 9 - December 2005
. Argentina and Mexico to join the WageIndicator family
. New media partners in Germany and UK
. Belgian metal workers put in extra hours for free
. Salary checker for IT in India
. Quality jump in data-intake
. June 2006 Amsterdam, world conference

WageIndicator Gazette 8 - September 2005
. First research results in Belgium
. Participation in EU FP6 project about classification of occupations seems likely
. Trade union project ´close the gender pay gap´ in next phase
. Questionnaire for the informal sector
. Plone against spaghetti at your screen
. Minimum wages in India
. Want you own blog on our pages?
. Belgium: on the double

WageIndicator Gazette 7 - June 2005
. Completed questionnaires by end of June 97,469
. German salary check online
. Enlarged and renewed Dutch salary check online
. Monster Jobs integrated in Dutch WageIndicator
. Londonpaywizard.co.uk - unique for Londoners
. Young employees victims of supermarket war - research
. Call centre operators in the line of fire - research
. Web managers opt for short and long version of the Questionnaire
. WageIndicator weblog
. WageIndicators in USA and Brazil online - work in progress
. First Woliweb annual report

WageIndicator Gazette 6 - March 2005
. 64,000 completed questionnaires: wage indicator shows real potential outside the Netherlands
. Wage measurement
. Data policy final
. Dutch time indicator data used in collective bargaining
. News from new WageIndicator Countries

WageIndicator Gazette 5 - December 2004
. WageIndicators alive & kicking in 8 EU countries
. WageIndicators and the press
. WageIndicators in the new year in USA, India, Brazil, South Africa and South Korea
. NACE and ISCO - How we make them user friendly in all countries
. Time check, new tool/toy online in the Netherlands
. Workshop Wage measurement

WageIndicator Gazette 4 - September 2004
. Nine reasons to celebrate in October
. Coalitions with media in Europe
. wage Indicators outside Europe
. New in the virtual office: data policy, statistics, tips answering email, master questionnaire
. Salary checkers

WageIndicator Gazette 3 - July 2004
. WageIndicators now in 9 countries
. The ILO encourages
. Research focus Woliweb/WageIndicator Programme
. Online methodology: problems can be solved
. Hard but informal teamwork
. From September on: launches in Europe and...
. Downloads

WageIndicator Gazette 2 - June 2004
. Launch July 8th: the program
. For the international guests: program July 9 and 10. Location, transport, hotel, money
. Great success: week of WageIndicator in Holland
. Progress in bringing new websites online
. The latest from the research lab

WageIndicator Gazette 1 - June 2004
· Start of Woliweb/WageIndicator.org
· Master version questionnaire online
· European launch on July 8th
· Workshops for country teams
· ILO shows interest