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Analyzing and Visualizing Data: Story of Labour Market Journalism
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | 5pm to 6pm IST
Paulien Osse | Director, WageIndicator Foundation, Netherlands
Prof. Rupa Korde | Faculty of Economics, FLAME University
The WageIndicator Research Lab at FLAME University offers students the opportunity to gain interdisciplinary experience in data journalism and data visualization. More than 55 students have already gained a year-long internship under this programme. WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam is a not for profit organisation that has worked for labour market transparency over 20 years to cover data collection and preparing research reports of over 140 countries. While working on software like STATA, SPSS, Tableau, PLONE, and Google Analytics students collaborate with the global team of WageIndicator. This webinar will detail the collaborative efforts of Prof. Rupa Korde, Faculty of Economics, FLAME University, and Paulien Osse, Director, WageIndicator Foundation, Netherlands, along with student interns of WageIndicator FLAME Research Lab.
SPEAKER
Paulien Osse | Director, WageIndicator Foundation, Netherlands
Paulien Osse has been a journalist all her life and worked for various magazines, the Dutch trade union and as a freelancer before she set up the WageIndicator Foundation in 2001. From the Dutch website Loonwijzer.nl, the Foundation grew to the 140+ countries it operates in today. WageIndicator works together with top universities worldwide, local and global trade unions and employer organisations. The local teams consist of journalists and academics. WageIndicator shares and compares wage, labour market and career information. WageIndicator specializes in Minimum and Living wages in the context of labour markets, and always globally comparable. WageIndicator is the key to a more transparent labour market worldwide.
Prof. Rupa Korde | Faculty of Economics, FLAME University
Rupa Korde is Assistant Professor of Economics at FLAME University. She teaches courses like Thinking Like an Economist, Economics of Industry, Innovation and Strategy, Gender Economics and Labour Economics in the Undergraduate Program. She has over a decade of teaching experience with reputed institutes like Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Symbiosis International University, and has also conducted Study India Programmes for Students of NTU Singapore. She has also been designated as a Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO Fellow), Maastricht since its inception in 2017.
While working at IIM Ahmedabad, she was a part of a research team, led by the Late Prof. C.K. Prahalad of University of Michigan that worked on developing metrics to measure the economic change in India. Her research interests include gender issues and labor market dynamics, on which she has co-authored, presented, and published various scholarly papers at international and national levels. Few of her research papers have been presented at conferences organized by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA). In addition, she has authored textbooks on various branches of Economics for limited publication. Presently, she researches the salary structure in India across industries and occupations, minimum wage structure and living wages across countries and role of gender in labour markets, as a team member of Project Paycheck India, which is a research initiative at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; supported by WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam.