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 ...
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 ...
How are social divides produced in contemporary labour markets?A macro-micro-macro study of the impact of European variants of labour market policies, industrial relations and welfare institutions on the working conditions, job quality and social rights o KU Leuven
Sabbatical Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa: A labour history of women in Ecuador KU Leuven
If the current health crisis allows, I would like to travel to Ecuador in the summer of 2021 for a project on women and labor in historical perspective. That project should result in a comparative analysis of the living and working conditions of subaltern, middle and high class women after 1976 (end of military dictatorship). Women's and Gender History in Ecuador is typified by its focus on indigenous women and middle-class feminists whose ...
Work and labour market concepts clearly explained in 100 seconds Ghent University
Work and labour market play a very decisive role in our lives. Therefore, it is important that the general public has a good knowledge of the most important concepts concerning work and the labour market. With this project proposal, we want to substantially increase that knowledge. We do this by having UGent experts clearly explain a selection of twenty work and labor market concepts in videos of no more than 100 seconds. The chosen twenty ...
Work meaning and labour supply - a large scale experiment KU Leuven
Robotization and labour law : A legal study on humanization of work and technology KU Leuven
This study deals with robotisation and labour law. Robots have been part of workplaces for several decades and are therefore not a new phenomenon. In recent years, however, some technological developments can be observed that make robots increasingly autonomous. For instance, they are equipped with sensors that can better perceive their surroundings. They can additionally give more meaning to this perceived information through various ...