The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

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The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

• Ph.D. (sociology), researcher
• Kimmo Kevätsalo
• Wageindicator conference 16.4.2008 Amsterdam

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www.kayttotieto.fi, tel. [phone]

• Research, expertise, consulting, training
• Trade union movement
• Competences of personnel and management
• Trust in work organisations
• Participation systems
• Internet-tools for different purposes, for
  instance.
• Comparing wages and salaries, employment and
  industrial relations of industries and
  occupations in EU-countries and worldwide,
  www.wageindicator.org
• Tool for co-operative incentive system within
  work organisations www.provika.fi

• Responsible researcher, dr. Kimmo Kevätsalo

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Developing the global Wageindicator as a product

• To be tempting for trade unions and other
  customer organisations Wageindicator ought to be
  more one of those ordinary Internet stuffs
• It is necessary to offer
• reliable up-to-date information
• ongoing research results and reports
• The strongest features of Internet surveys are
  international comparisons
• Many languages
• Comparative datasets
• Cheap and rapid data gathering

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Product development

• Convincing pilot projects
• The Finnish experience, printed and .pdf report
• Suitable occupations
• Nurses
• Also bank officials and professionals,
  it-professionals are suitable occupations for
  pilots
• Why nurses
• Homogenous occupation all over the world
• Well educated
• It-literate
• Mainly public sector
• Good access to Internet

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Necessary steps

• Discussions with local Wageindicator teams and
  nurses trade unions
• Preliminary discussions until now Finland,
  Holland, UK, Argentina, Brazil
• Next countries South-Africa, India, Italy,
  Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and
  Denmark
• Budgeting
• New discussion round
• Already agreed Argentina and Brazil from the 20th
  of November onwards

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Realization

• Contents of the new tool
• National portals
• Salary-checker of purchasing power parities in
  participating countries
• Questionnaire mainly the general Wageindicator
  questionnaire some specific questions important
  for nurses
• Funding
• Mainly national trade unions and funding
  institutions
• Regional and international trade union
  federations
• For the EU-area perhaps EU-commission
• etc

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Time schedule

• Help for organizing meetings with nurses
  organizations in all Wageindicator countries
• Preliminary agreements about participation until
  the end of February 2009
• Necessary programming of the tools until the end
  on March 2009
• Testing April-May 2009
• Launching September 2009
• Marketing all over the world when the pilot is
  ready to be shown

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Purchasing power parities of nurses in 6
EU-countries
Wageindicator VII/2007, N 4 078 Price- and
tax-levels from Statistics Finland 2006
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Gross and net earnings of nurses in 6
EU-coutries
Gross earnings transformed to be full time
earnings euros/month Net earningsgross
earnings total taxes and levies in each country
Wageindicator VII/ 2007, N4 078 Tax levels,
Satistics Finland 2006