Main features of the labour policy in Portugal

António Moniz and Tobias Woll ()

No 02/2007, IET Working Papers Series from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology

Abstract: In this working paper is presented information on the Portuguese labour market developed with the support of the European project WORKS-“Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society”. Is still a on the process article and thus commentaries are welcome. The structure is based on the following topics: a) The employment policy (Time regimes - time use, flexibility, part-time work, work-life balance -, and the work contracts regimes – wages, contract types, diversity); b) Education and training (skilling outcomes, rules on retraining and further training, employability schemes, transferability of skills); c) Equal opportunities (relevance of equal opportunity regulation for restructuring outcomes, the role of gender and age regulation); d) Restructuring effects (policy on transfer of personnel, policy on redundancies, and participation or voice in restructuring).

Keywords: labour market; gender; work organisation; knowledge society; employment policy; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J21 J31 J48 J68 J82 M12 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu, nep-lab and nep-mac
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