Projects
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 ...
Labour immigration and the joint demands of social and global justice KU Leuven
Large-scale labour mobility is widely thought to result in well-being gains, especially for the global poor. In receiving societies, however, it raises concerns about the economic and political viability of the welfare state, and the prospects of native workers. A wide-spread, but controversial, solution to the tension is the idea of differential socio-economic rights for immigrant workers, in particular, restricted access to the welfare ...
Chair career transitions and Labour Market Dynamics. KU Leuven
Critical success factors in the activation policy for People with foreign origin.
Educational and skill mismatches in the Flemish youth labour market: examination of underlying mechanisms. KU Leuven
Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Flanders Ghent University
The research aims at evaluating the active labour market policies implemented for job seekers in Flanders. This comprises the measurement of the effect on reemployment and the stability of this employment of measures such as counselling and training, referrals to vacancies, modalities determining eligibility to unemployment benefits.
Sex as key to success? Early modern gendered labour markets studied using eighteenth century Brabantine censuses. University of Antwerp
Agrarian labour organization in the North Sea area, 1650-1850 Ghent University
This research project addresses the causes and effects of the transformations in the agrarian labour organization and market in the North Sea area during the early modern period. In this project we investigate the relationship between the different types of agrarian labour and chart their development within the agrarian, economical, institutional and ecological framework of four regions in the North Sea area during a period of two ...
Five years after the migration crisis: how successful have the European and national frameworks been in integrating migrants in the labour market and providing them with access to education? A comparative research into the European and national … Hasselt University
The regulation of mobility, labour and poor relief in European social policy, c. 1350-1914 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(a) finish a monograph on the reform of poor relief and regulation of labour mobility in the eighteenth-century Low Countries that builds upon much of the research I have carried out in the past years,
(b) lay the groundwork for the elaboration of a new research line that extends this research topic in spatial
and diachronic terms to the regulation of labour mobility and poor ...