Projects
Labour Migration and Population Ageing: anlyzing the effectiveness of current labour market integration and job councelling trajectories for newly arrived immigrants and individuals with a migration background in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Smart mobility in the European labour market: a legal assessment of the European approach to transnational labour in the new world of work KU Leuven
This research project examines the influence of the new world of work on the legal setting of transnational labour in the EU and attempts to reach out an improved typology of labour mobility and suggestions to adapt the current European mobility legislation. The main focus concerns therefore the question whether the current European mobility legislation still offers an adequate response to a specific new form of work, namely the smart ...
Labour relations and border regimes in a pandemic scenario. A comparative study of migrant labour in the EU agro-industrial sector KU Leuven
EU economies’ structural need for low-cost foreign labour is usually invisibilized by nationalistic and populist discourses on immigration. Similarly, border and migration studies tend to overlook states’ role in sustaining the demand of employers for low-cost migrant workers. However, the shortage of labour in the agro-industrial sector of western EU countries during recent border closures was calculated at around one million workers – ...
Understanding how path dependencies, family dynamics and active labour market programs shape the labour market trajectories of first and second generation migrants : a multistate life course approach. University of Antwerp
The potential additional labour force and labour market attachment KU Leuven
Disability and re-integration in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Our labour market has to face a number of challenges as a result of the ageing of the population and the increased globalization. International and European policy makers call upon the national countries to allow as many people as possible to participate in the labour market. This is usually referred to as the re-integration concept. This raises the question of whether Belgian labour law complies with the re-integration concept, moreover ...