The economic and financial crisis has had a major impact on job security and working conditions across all sectors in Portugal, including scientific research. A national study finds that research staff are experiencing precarious employment having difficulties in finding a stable job in Portugal
The difficulties people with disabilities face when entering the labour market in Portugal are examined in a report, Disability and inequality in access to the labour market: the employment gap for the visually impaired in Portugal (in Portuguese) [1]. The research was conducted by the country’s
A new report, /Young people in precarious transitions: Work, everyday life and future/ examines the problems young people face when they move into the labour market in Portugal. One of its chapters, ‘Occupational structure, labour relations and precariousness’, analyses the difficulties experienced
A study into undeclared work in the domestic sector, In the depth of the shadows: domestic work, gender and immigration (in Portuguese, 443KB PDF) [1], has been published by the School of Economics and Management at the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG-UTL [2]). The study, based on doctoral
Youth unemployment is an increasingly critical issue in Portugal despite improving levels of educational attainment. A survey of 15–34 year-olds by Statistics Portugal in the second quarter of 2009 found that the average age of leaving formal education was 19 years-old. Over 90% of respondents who
The influence of key characteristics of a person’s job on their satisfaction with the rewards they receive was examined in a study (in Portuguese, 115Kb PDF) [1] by the Centre for Research and Social Intervention (CIS [2]) of the University Institute of Lisbon ISCTE-IUL [3]). The rewards received
A nationwide study carried out as part of the research project, ETES – Os estudantes e os seus trajectos no ensino superior (14.2Mb PDF) [1] [students and their higher education pathways] has examined the factors behind the success, failure and early drop-out rates of students in higher education in
In February 2006, the General Motors European Works Council and the European Employee Forum (EEF), which is the trade union coordination group for General Motors Europe (GM Europe [1]), expressed their opposition to a plan by GM Europe to relocate the production unit of its Combo plant in Azambuja