Projects
Collective labour rights for self-employed workers: A human rights-based approach of platform work KU Leuven
My research will focus on the human rights protection of self-employed workers, and specially on workers engaged in the so-called platform economy. This is because they often find themselves in the grey zone between employment and self-employment, an issue that it is certainly not novel. The widespread use of freelance jobs entails the risk of leaving such workers outside the scope of protection of fundamental human rights. Indeed, for ...
Intertemporal collective consumption decisions: A revealed preference analysis. KU Leuven
CAWIE2 - COLLECTIVELY AGREED WAGES IN THE NEW EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE- ALTERNATIVE VIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES. KU Leuven
Unilateral variation of contracts of employment in the public sector: the difficult interplay between administrative and labour law Hasselt University
Occupational welfare dynamics and labour market segmentation. A comparative company-level case study analysis in logistics and manufacturing in Belgium. KU Leuven
This thesis focuses on occupational welfare that has been related to growing welfare dualism (Natali and Pavolini 2014; Seeleib-Kaiser et al. 2012). Occupational welfare is defined as the sum of all benefits and services distributed by employers to employees as part of their employment (Titmuss 1958) and can include ‘social’ benefits such as pensions, childcare, sickness, and unemployment benefits, as well as ‘fringe’ benefits like company ...
Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into four chapters, each built around a different research paper that falls under the broad field of `development economics'. The analysis in all chapters is mostly empirical, relying on primary data collected in recent years from East Africa. Of course, theory plays a key role in directing the analysis. Chapters 1 and 2 study different aspects of female empowerment and household decisions in Tanzania. Chapters 3 ...
Gender inequality in the labor market: The role of flexible jobs KU Leuven
When analysing household behaviour, economists have traditionally relied on the ‘unitary’ model, where the household is assumed to maximize a unique utility function. However, it is by now well understood that, when applied to couples, the unitary approach fails when brought to the data. This has led to the development of what is now known as the ‘collective’ model. The collective model acknowledges that the household is a collective of ...
Increasing Metalworkers’ representatives’ Awareness and Skills on Mental Health Protection & Promotion in the Workplace KU Leuven
IncreMe(n)tal aims at providing quality training to trade unionists and workers’ representatives in the metalworking industry in 7 target countries and at transnational level, in order to increase their awareness concerning emerging psychosocial risks connected to work environment and work organisation, but also regarding the strategic role of social dialogue and collective bargaining initiatives in protecting and promoting workers’ mental ...
The opportunities for industrial relations to prevent and manage psychosocial risks in post-pandemic workplaces KU Leuven
The PSYR-IR project zooms in on occupational safety and health, with a particular focus on mental health and worker well-being. It is our aim to identify the broad challenges and issues at play, as well as their underlying drivers, across all EU Member States and all economic sectors. This will be done by implementing an overarching conceptual framework on OSH and linking it with the existing empirical evidence and the policy/regulatory ...