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The article presents findings from a research study that focused on the construction of the work experience of social work professionals when their "entrepreneurship" involves creating an NGO as a self-employment alternative. NGOs emerge as an alternative to the tensions arising from the relationship between the State and the market. However, the "new spirit of capitalism" confronts them with the pressures of financing, and in southern countries, they have even been established as an alternative for employment and self-employment for professionals in social areas. Methodologically, the study adopted a qualitative ethnographic perspective. The research identified three effects of the penetration of the entrepreneurship discourse in the social labor market: 1. effects of entrepreneurship on the reconfigurations of work environments; 2. effects of entrepreneurship on subjectivity; and 3. effects on the organization of work and the organization of professional knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Decent work is not only a concept that has become increasingly entrenched as part of the problem of employment and its characteristics but has become part of it because by lacking these conditions employment may have views of precariousness as argued by the ILO (International Labour Organization). Outsourcing in both Colombia and Mexico is a practice that has grown as a model of procurement, with benefits in terms of lower labour costs for businesses, as well as a competitive advantage, because through it greater specialization can be achieved to improve business productivity, however, it is also problematic to the extent that it upsets traditional industrial relations, which makes it relevant to ask about how job outsourcing is or does not undermine what the ILO has defined as decent work. Objective. Determine the implications of outsourcing on decent work. Materials and Methods. In this quantitative investigation, we have given ourselves to the task, through the application to outsourced workers (of Entities of Medellin in Colombia and Michoacán in Mexico) of a structured instrument based on dimensions with the approach that several authors consider in relation to the measurement of decent work, to find out whether the characteristics under which this contract is given, provide the necessary variables to be considered as decent employment. The study defined 9 dimensions and 36 items for determining the implications of outsourcing or outsourcing on decent work, in accordance with the guidelines presented by ILO, a base of 435 respondents who fulfill the paraments was worked on to achieve reliability in the data validated with the Cronbach Alpha statistic and the suitability of the structure of the correlation matrix was verified with the adequacy test of the measure of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's sphericity test. Results. The study found that, of the nine dimensions analyzed, seven of them are correlated with decent work, on the dimensions of work reconciliation with family life and the safe working environment there is no impact on the study carried out. According to the results, the ease presented for the attainment of work in an outsourced manner is concluded, being the employment opportunity that responds to the ILO's approaches in the sense that decent work promotes opportunities for equality for all. Conclusions. The results obtained show among other points the fact that in the absence of this type of hiring the employee feels that there is an opportunity to be employed, however, the characteristics of this employment lack in some sense some qualities of decent work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As part of the process of moving toward an inclusive society, Colombia's public policy with respect to inclusive education goes beyond acceptance and attendance in the educational system, to include graduates' participation in the labor market. This study focuses on the discrimination and employment exclusion faced by university graduates from low socioeconomic classes. Surveys completed by 98 deans of business schools show that the directors of private secular universities, private religious universities, and public universities perceive the discrimination in an equal manner. However, the directors of private secular institutions, perceiving greater discrimination, also feel more responsible for remedying it. The deans, on the other hand, show the inverse effect: the greater their perception of discrimination, the lesser their feelings of responsibility to counteract it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study quantifies the differences in impact on the job situation of graduates who have a classroom-based college degree in technology versus those who have an onli-ne education degree A questionnaire was applied to a sample of 102 graduates from an institution of hig-her education in Colombia who majored in systems technology (51 for each type of instruction). Impact was measured according to the graduates' conditions for em-ployability, fluctuations in the job quality index (JCI), differences in opportunities for job mobility represented by job promotions, the difference in the impact of online and classroom-based education on salaries earned and the difference in continuity in the graduates'academic and professional training. The analysis shows there were significant differences in impact on the job situation of graduates in favor of classroom-based instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Las remesas que llegan a Colombia han crecido muy rápidamente en los últimos años y su peso en la economía es cada vez mayor. Este artículo analiza en detalle los diferentes impactos que han tenido estas corrientes de divisas tanto en lo económico como en lo social y busca también recalcar los riesgos potenciales a largo plazo. En esta perspectiva, se muestra cuál ha sido la evolución de las remesas en Colombia en los últimos años, poniendo el acento sobre el peso que tienen en la economía nacional e intentando entender las características socioeconómicas tanto de los remitentes como de los receptores de ellas. Luego, se establece un diagnóstico del fenómeno de las remesas en Colombia: si bien ellas pueden contribuir a mejorar la situación del país, van acompañadas de una serie de costos que podrían perjudicar a largo plazo la economía colombiana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]