Projects
Evaluation research of the new targeted employment policies in Flanders based on a reduction of social contributions to the employer KU Leuven
This research aims to evaluate the so-called targeted employment policies in the Flemish Region of Belgium for the first time after its regionalization in 2014. The instrument used consists of targeted hiring subsidies for employers through a reduction in social security contributions. These are (mostly) newly recruited employees in the lowest wage categories belonging to one of the following three groups: low and middle qualified young ...
How can we enhance employer involvement in creating labour market opportunities for persons with an occupational disability? KU Leuven
The focus of the project is on the role of the job intermediary or coach and their relationship with employers. In particular, we use good practices in order to determine which factors positively influence employers’ intentions: intention boosters! We also pay attention to the intersection of these intention boosters and gender. We then link these intention boosters to national and international tools used by job intermediaries in other ...
The effectiveness of social policy targeted at households with disabled children in Flanders: does the existing set of social policies succeed in reducing the poverty risk of disabled children? University of Antwerp
Age discrimination in employment: the EU perspective applied in the law of the Member States? Hasselt University
Cross-cultural comparison of the work experiences of disabled employees in a multinational corporation. Hasselt University
Motivational counseling as a lever for sustainable re-employment and higher well-being: the development and evaluation of a training protocol in a health insurance context KU Leuven
Over the last years, the number of patients on sick leave has increased which leads to increased expenditures for our social security system. In 2016 the federal expenses linked to absence from work were larger than those for unemployment for the first time in Belgium. Absence from work can be evaluated in different ways. For a long period of time, occupational and health insurance physicians used merely a biomedical approach with a focus on ...
An empirical investigation into the middle-and higher-income bias in social spending and welfare state redistribution across 20 countries, 1985-2013 KU Leuven
Welfare states that are effective in reducing poverty have high levels of social spending. Yet, changes in social spending cannot explain changes in poverty outcomes. Inequalities increased almost everywhere and so did levels of social spending, but in many countries social spending became less effective in keeping poverty at bay. So, then, why did social spending became less pro-poor in some countries but not in others? The central ...
Start! Adapt! Stop! Tracking the dynamics of action control in Parkinson’s disease. Ghent University
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological disease in which so-called dopaminergic cells in specific parts of the brain are disabled. These cells are responsible for producing dopamine, a substance important for the production of movements. The resulting decrease in dopamine level leads to motoric problems and accordingly PD is characterized primarily by clearly observable symptoms such as tremor, difficulty initiating movement, and slowness ...