Projects
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 ...
Psychological distress in parents: a comparative analysis of European childcare systems. University of Antwerp
The legal position of private care organisations in the residential care for the elderly. A comparative analysis of the freedom of functioning of private care organisations. KU Leuven
Migration and the Politics of Urban Citizenship: a Comparative Analysis of Four Belgian Cities (1974-2012). University of Antwerp
Institutional comparative research on active ageing: Multi-level analysis of the determinants of early retirement, reintegration an investment in employability. University of Antwerp
Different lens, new insights? Benefit receipt data as an alternative means to study the extent, development and effects of public welfare provision in Europe KU Leuven
Since the emergence of modern welfare states, scientists as well as politicians and public opinion makers showed great interest in how welfare states differ across countries, how they change, what drives their variation and change, and what social outcomes they produce. This has contributed to a considerable amount of literature in comparative welfare state research, including the discussion of the so-called ‘dependent variable problem’. ...
Welfare architecture and solidarity: impact of hybrid organization on citizen's voluntary engagement. KU Leuven
Talking solidarity: how do citizens of different welfare states frame solidarity in their interactions? University of Antwerp
(De-)politicization strategies in the European Union: An Actor-Centered Comparative Study of Public Discourse on EU Policies KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis conceptualizes what an act of (de-)politicization in the public sphere looks like and shows how this can be detected empirically through a claim-level (de-)politicization index – the first of its kind in the field. This approach is applied to a database of EU policy evaluations (claims), in the media of six Member States (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Denmark). The aim is to explore avenues which theoretically ...