Zeitarbeit in Deutschland und Europa

Temporary work is one of the fastest growing branches in Germany. This development in a sustained manner influences the whole German labour market. The special organization of this sort of employment for various reasons makes it very attractive to employers and employees as well. Nevertheless, the reputation of this branch is rather poor. Temporary work is characterized as precarious and as an unsafe type of employment. Compared to regular employment, temporary work is often considered as a bridging function into regular employment. Based on the official statistics of temporary work released by the Federal Work Agency as well as on data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) for 2007, the paper presents the current situation and important characteristics of temporary work and performs an international comparison. The number of employees in temporary work agencies is still a marginal share of total employment. The future development of this branch depends on different factors leading to possible contradicting directions. One important aspect influencing temporary work in the future is the degree of flexibility of regular employment opportunities on the one hand and the possibilities of temporary work agencies to adapt to future working conditions on the other hand. Looking at other European countries, one can see that some degree of saturation in different temporary job opportunities has already been achieved, whereas new perspectives are opened for other jobs, either newly created or transformed from regular employment schemes.

Effect of an infection control programme in enteral feeding bacterial contamination in nursing homes

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Resilience, Agency and Coping with Hardship : Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession

© Cambridge University Press 2018This paper aims to contribute to the growing literature on resilience by focusing on coping with hardship during the Great Recession, drawing upon primary data gathered through household and key informant interviews in nine European countries. As the resilience approach highlights agency, the paper examines the nature of household responses to hardship during this period on the basis of the ‘structure-agency problem’. An important contribution of this paper is to identify different forms of agency and discuss their implications. More specifically, we conceptualise three different types of agency in coping with hardship: absorptive, adaptive and transformative. Analysis of the findings indicates that structural constraints remain prominent. Most coping mechanisms fall under the category of absorptive and adaptive agency characterised here as burden-bearing actions that ‘conform’ to changing circumstances rather than shaping those circumstances.Peer reviewe

The prevalence and source of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the community in Hong Kong

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Mehrwerte einer kombinierten qualitativen Bild- und Textanalyse zur Bedeutung sozialräumlicher Strukturen für resiliente Haushaltspraktiken

Auf der Basis der Analyse von narrativem und visuellem Material zeigt der Artikel, dass der wechselseitige Bezug von Fotografie und Transkript, im Sinne einer hermeneutischen Spirale, sowohl das Bild- als auch das Textverständnis erweitert. Das Fotomaterial ermöglicht und generiert im Prozess der Datenauswertung auch eine sinnlich-leibliche Komponente, die ein anderes Verstehen ermöglicht. Der Methodenmix von Bild- und Textanalyse wird in unserem Aufsatz auf die Analyse von sozioökonomischen und räumlichen Haushaltspraktiken zur Bewältigung von prekären Lebenssituationen angewendet

Characterization of staphylococci contaminating automated teller machines in Hong Kong

Author name used in this publication: M. O'DononghueAuthor name used in this publication: M. V. Boost2012-2013 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe

Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus carriage among dogs and their owners

Author name used in this publication: M. V. BoostAuthor name used in this publication: M. M. O'Donoghue2007-2008 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalVersion of RecordPublishe