Leader - Jasna

Secretary - Jana

Reporter - Jasmina

Timekeeper - Neža

Reserve person - Evelin & Tina

 

 

Title:  WOMEN'S UNEMPLOYMENT IN LJUBLJANA

 

 

 

 source: Wikipedia (online), Unemployment, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment  (accessed 26 February 2008)

 

 

 

 

Definition: Historically, women have allways been underrepresented in the spfere of  paid employment. Despite of improving women's position in domestic and public life, women in Slovenia (Ljubljana) are still more exposed to higher risk in the labour market than men what is also seen in higher unemployment rate among women.

 

 

 

 

Questions:

 

1. When did the problem of unemployment in Slovenia start and how have affected women?

2. How do we collect information on unemployed people?

3.Which social groups beside women are at the highest risk to become unemployed?

4.Which factors cause women's unemployment and which are the forms of unemployment?

5. How does  unemployment affect life of unemployed women?

 

6.What is the actual situation of women's  unemployment in Slovenia?

7. In which region is women's unemployment at the highest rate?

8. Which tipe of education offers more oppurtunities for women's employment?

9. Which are the forms of help to unemployed women? 

 

 

 

 

MINUTES OF THE 1st E-MEETING

 held on  21 February 2008

 

 

 present: Jasmina, Evelin, Tina, Jana, Jasna, Neža

 absent: /

 

 

AGENDA: 1. Selecting the topic

   

Item 1: Evelin suggested that our topic could be unemployment in Slovenia. All the members agreed that is an appropriate topic for our project.

 

 

 

 

 

  MINUTES OF THE 2nd E-MEETING

 held on 23 February 2008

 

present: Jasmina, Evelin

absent: Jasna, Neža, Tina, Jana

 

AGENDA:    1.  Defining the problem

 

                    2. Defining research questions

 

                        3. Any other business

 

 

Item 1: We decided to formulate our definition for the problem based on different Internet sources such as Wikipedia and the sociology book called Sociologija.

 

 

 

Item 2: After consideration we formed some questions which could be relevant for our project.

The questions are published in this wiki page. 

 

Item 3: Because of the absence of most members of our group any other business was not discussed.

 

  

Minutes taker: Evelin

 

 

 

       DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS

 

Tina will try to answer how we collect information on unemployed people and which type of education offers more opportunities to get employed.

 

Jasna wil focus on the question which social groups  beside women are at the highest risk to become unemployed.

 

Jana will try to find out reasons for and forms of unemployment.

 

Evelin will tell us how unemployment affects life of women who are unemployed.

 

 

Neža is going to prepare an interview with official person who is employed in Zavod za zaposlovanje, where she will focus on all our questions that we are looking for. Neža will also interpretate her answers.

 

Jasmina will try to answer when did the problem of unemployment in Slovenia start and what is the actual situation of unemployment in Slovenia.

 

 

 

 

       LIST OF LITERATURE

 

 

• Svetlik, Ivan (1985): Brezposelnost in zaposlovanje. Delavska enotnost,Ljubljana.
• Barle, Andreja in drugi (2004): Sociologija. Učbenik za 280-urni predmet sociologije v 4. letniku gimnazijskega izobraževanja.DZS,Ljubljana.
• http://www.pannep.si/ (accesed 15 March 2008)
•  http:/www.stat.si (accesed 1 March 2008)
• Shauna Curphey (online), Safety net is weaker for unemployed women. http://www.womensenesenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1316, accesed 5 March 2008
• Haralambos M., Holborn M. (2001) : Sociologija: teme in pogledi. DZS, Ljubljana 2001

 

 

 

       MINUTES OF THE 3RD MEETING

 

held on 29th February 2008 in the FDV library

 

 

Present: Evelin, Jasna, Neža, Jasmina, Jana, Tina.

Absent: /

 

Agenda:  1. Action-item follow-up

             2. Distribution of tasks

             3. Sources and literature

             4. Any other business

 

Item 1: We completed successfully the tasks assigned to us.

Item 2: We once again read the questions and distributed them among the members. Everyone took the problem which they found most interesting. 

Item 3: We had already chosen our literature when we defined the research questions. We added some Internet pages that we found appropriate for our topic.

Item 4: We decided to be more cooperative and do more teamwork.

 

 

 Minutes taker: Jana

 

 

 

GLOSSARY:

Tina:

 

 

 

Cyclical unemployment-  CIKLIČNA BREZPOSELNOST

 

 

 

 The business cycle or economic cycle-  EKONOMSKI CIKEL

 

 

 

Applied science - UPORABNE ZNANOSTI

 

 

 

Jasmina:

 

 

 

vacate -  zapustiti službo / službeno mesto

 

 

tehnological excess -tehnološki višek

 

 

rampant enemployment - (razmahnjena) / hitro rastoča nezaposlenost

 

 

 

Jana:

 

 

 

social security - socialna varnost

 

 

 

 employability, employment opportunities - zaposlitvene možnosti

 

 

 

 unemployment allowance - (denarno) nadomestilo za brezposelnost

 

 

 

Evelin:

 

 

 

tolerance threshold- tolerančni prag

 

 

unemployment insurance   = jobless benefits -  začasna denarna nadomestila

 

 

Jasna:

 

Unemployment Eligiblity =  si upravičen do

 

Unemployment Compensation =  odškodnina, nadomestilo

 

Frictional unemployment =  frikcijska nezaposlenost

 

 

 

 Neža:

 

Jobless recovery or jobless growth - RAST DELOVNIH MEST

 

Microeconomics -MIKROEKONOMIJA

 

Macroeconomics-  MAKROEKONOMIJA