Towards a Global WageIndicator
Developing a global wage indicator to enhance transparency and empower trade unions in developing countries through online research.
Title: | Towards a Global WageIndicator |
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Duration: | February 2005 - February 2009 |
Funded by: | FNV Mondiaal - VMP fonds |
Status: | Closed |
Project manager: | Paulien Osse |
Project description | If ever a project name expressed a wish and promise, it is Global.... Under this label the development assistance programme of the Dutch trade union confederation FNV funds the first extension of the wage indicator project to Africa, Asia and Latin America, starting in South Africa, India, South Korea and, Brazil. And from February 2006 in Argentina and Mexico. |
Project goals | The Global Wage Indicator project aims to increase the transparency of the labour market in developing countries, and to give trade unions in these countries more insight into the way wages, terms of employment, working conditions are structured across occupations, companies, industries, regions and countries. This empowerment of both individual employees and the trade union movement is achieved by introducing the Wage Indicator online questionnaire research system. |
Project approach | Global' widens the European scope to encompass countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia, in Brazil, South Africa and India for a start. |
Overall lack of wage data | Presently, it is not easy to lay hands on even basic wage figures. Individual employees are generally dependent on labour market information gathered in their local community or peer group. In particular the wage and employment practices of multinational enterprises across the globe are more and more scrutinised. |
Expected results | These data will allow for salary checks on the Wage Indicator websites for over hundred occupations. In addition it will allow for detailed reports on wage differentials across gender, ethnicity and age groups, across regions and nations, across occupations and industries, within multinational enterprises and for foreign versus local establishments in national economies. |
Academic backing | The Wage Indicator Foundation in this project is backed by two universities: the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labour Studies of the University of Amsterdam (AIAS/UvA), that ensures the scientific methodology and the questionnaire, and the SCOPE team of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam/Rotterdam School of Management (EUR/RSM) for the section on ScopeMultiresearch. (ppt) Global wage Indicator Proposal for extension to India, Brazil, South Korea, South Africa. 2008 - globalprojectplan Global WageIndicator in Argentina and Mexico. Global2def |