WP 92 - An overview of women's work and employment in Azerbaijan

An overview of women’s work and employment in Azerbaijan

Information about AIAS

AIAS is a young interdisciplinary institute, established in 1998, aiming to become the leading expert cen-
tre in the Netherlands for research on industrial relations, organisation of work, wage formation and labour
market inequalities. As a network organisation, AIAS brings together high-level expertise at the University
of Amsterdam from five disciplines:

• Law

• Economics

• Sociology

• Psychology

• Health and safety studies

AIAS provides both teaching and research. On the teaching side it offers a Masters in Comparative
Labour and Organisation Studies and one in Human Resource Management. In addition, it organizes spe-
cial courses in co-operation with other organisations such as the Netherlands Centre for Social Innovation
(NCSI), the Netherlands Institute for Small and Medium-sized Companies (MKB-Nederland), the National
Centre for Industrial Relations ‘De Burcht’, the National Institute for Co-determination (GBIO), and the
Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’. AIAS has an extensive research program
(2004-2008) on Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation, building on the research performed by its
member scholars. Current research themes effectively include:

• Wage formation, social policy and industrial relations

• The cycles of policy learning and mimicking in labour market reforms in Europe

• The distribution of responsibility between the state and the market in social security

• The wage-indicator and world-wide comparison of employment conditions

• The projects of the LoWER network

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