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Large differences in income between academics and academics
Women with university degrees earn less than their male Colleagues. This applies to employees of all types of degrees - the Bachelor to the College, the master to the university and the promotion. In the Average, the salary gap is ("Gender Pay Gap") 21.5 percent. This is the conclusion of an online survey by Internet portal www.lohnspiegel.de that is maintained by WSI collective agreement archive of the Hans Böckler Foundation. Approximately 10,200 employees with academic degrees have been involved in the survey.
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The average gross monthly earnings of women in Germany is around 21 percent less than men. This is the result of a recent online survey of website http://www.frauenlohnspiegel.de/. The women's wage levels will be maintained by WSI collective agreement archive of the Hans Böckler Foundation and offers a wage and salary check to around 300 jobs. The survey is based on data from 22,000 women and men who participated in 2011 in the online survey.
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Incomes of "Secretaries" and "Chefs/cooks in Germany. A full report.
The reports include an analysis of the incomes of the profession "Secretaries" and "Chefs/cooks" in Germany. In order to calculate comparable monthly earnings, data has been standardized to an hourly wage. The monthly earnings is calculated in the second step on the basis of 38 hours per week.
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Frozen in time: Gender pay gap unchanged for 10 years
A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) reveals that worldwide, women are paid 18% on average less than their male counterparts at work.
The report, “Frozen in time: Gender pay gap unchanged for 10 years”
released on the eve of International Women’s Day, looks at women’s wages
in 43 countries, twice the number of previous studies.
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Women journalists sick and tired of gender pay gap
Female journalists are paid less, receive fewer
benefits and are more often without a fixed contract than their male
colleagues. They know it and it makes them less satisfied with their
wage, working environment and – indeed – their colleagues, then men.
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Continuing to work to 65 years or more: Wishes and Expectations?
This report discusses the survey question about the expected and desired age at which workers want to retire. In recent years workers have adjusted their expectations and their wishes regarding the age when they want or expect to stop working.
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Socio-demographic characteristics of young women in service sector occupations
The DECISIONS FOR LIFE project targeted women aged 15-30 in eight large occupational groups in the service sector. These occupations are: bookkeepers, call centre operators, receptionists in hotels, housekeepers in hotels, IT-programmers, sales persons/cashiers in retail, secretaries, and travel agency intermediaries.
This report gives insight in the socio-demographic characteristics of the target group.
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This report aims to contribute to the debate about the strategies for collective bargaining in the Utilities Sector at national and European levels in view of market liberalisation, privatisation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and technological change. It investigates the effects of these changes on wages, working conditions, occupational structures and skills, as measured through the answers of workers in this sector on the WageIndicator web-survey.
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In the midst of political turmoil at the beginning of 2012, Berbarometer registered changes in levels of satisfaction with working life amongst the population. A comparison was made between the response to the online survey in 2006 and 2010. The analysis of survey results focused on two questions: how satisfied are you with your job and with your wage? Regarding job satisfaction the happy number increased by a good 5 percent to 45 percent on average.
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In the three countries researched (Brazil, Indonesia, Zambia); women and young workers have higher chances to be below/on or on the minimum wage. The results confirm that a statutory minimum wage or, within reasonable limits, an increased minimum wage universally will work out most positively for women, in raising the bottom of the wage distribution, reducing poverty and also, under certain conditions, reducing the gender pay gap.
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Work, family and happiness
In the study, the relationship between different household arrangements and happiness is investigated. It explains how best one can organize his or her life to be happy. Happiness is not something that happens to you but what you as an individual can exert influence on it yourself.
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Domestic workers, their wages and work in 12 countries
This report discusses wages and work of domestic workers in the 12 countries of the Decision for Life project, coordinated by ITUC. These countries are Angola, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, South Africa, Ukraine, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Employment profile in Hungary
"On the good track – Developing and adopting good examples for labour market integration and the enhancement of equal opportunities”.
All about - Labour market environment, Characteristics of the labor market, Employment rate, Unemployment rate, Wages in the region, Wage gap, and much more for :-
- North Great Plain Region, Hungary.
- North Hungarian Region, Hungary.
- South Great Plain Region, Hungary.
Based on the data from almost 40,000 respondents in the Netherlands,
gathered in 2009 and 2010, the study concludes that it is possible to
tell that there are differences in happiness between occupations.
Based on the whole dataset, ship deck crews and related workers
are the happiest people. Refuse workers are the least happy.
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Pay pulls medics from East to West
A cross country comparison of salaries in the health sector, based on Wage Indicator data, shows that medical doctors from Poland, Russia or the Ukraine could make a small fortune in no time in the United States.
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Minimum Wage Compliance Report in Cambodia
According to this recent Wage Survey in Cambodia, one out of five workers cannot cover their basic needs, and therefore, are considered poor. Furthermore, 46 percent of them earn below the minimum wage . These underpaid workers tend to have low education, work in elementary occupations (such as unskilled work in the agriculture, construction and restaurant sectors), and age between 20 to 40 years old. The level of unionization amongst respondents is low.
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Labour Conditions in Pakistan
According to a survey conducted by Wage Indicator Foundation in Karachi during late 2010, with sample size of 1626 persons, 4.65 % of the respondents earn less than the national minimum wage which is currently fixed as PKR 7,000. However, the surprising feature is that 69.8% of these underpaid are either semi-skilled or highly skilled once we take into account the educational attainments.
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Crisis in Germany and Netherlands
Voor zover de economische crisis toeslaat, maken vooral vrouwen en werknemers van boven de 50 daar melding van. Ze vinden dat hun werkgever door de crisis vanaf begin 2009 in de problemen is geraakt, als ze merken dat lonen worden bevroren, banen verdwijnen en de werkdruk toeneemt omdat minder mensen hetzelfde werk moeten blijven doen. Dit blijkt uit een loonwijzer-onderzoek onder ruim 30.000 respondenten in Nederland en in Duitsland van augustus 2009 tot eind 2010. De volgende trend heeft alleen betrekking op Nederland.
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