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The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

Dr. Kimmo Kevätsalo, a Ph.D. sociologist and researcher at The Nurses' Global Wageindicator, offers expertise in research, consulting, and training for the trade union movement. The focus is on developing the Wageindicator as a reliable and up-to-date information tool for international comparisons of wages, employment, and industrial relations. The project includes the development of national portals, a salary-checker for purchasing power parities in participating countries, and a questionnaire tailored to nurses' specific needs. Funding is primarily sought from national trade unions and funding institutions, with potential support from regional/international trade union federations and the EU commission for the EU area. The project timeline includes preliminary agreements with nurses' organizations until the end of February 2009, programming of the tools by the end of March 2009, testing from April-May 2009, and a planned launch in September 2009 with global marketing.

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The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

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  1. The Nurses' Global Wageindicator Ph.D. (sociology), researcher Kimmo Kevätsalo Wageindicator conference 16.4.2008 Amsterdam

  2. www.kayttotieto.fi, tel. +358 400 500 583 • 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Purchasing power parities of nurses in 6 EU-countries Wageindicator VII/2007, N= 4 078 Price- and tax-levels from Statistics Finland 2006

  9. Gross and net earnings of nurses in 6 EU-coutries Gross earnings transformed to be full time earnings euros/month; Net earnings=gross earnings – total taxes and levies in each country Wageindicator VII/ 2007, N=4 078 Tax levels, Satistics Finland 2006

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