Projects
The pre-industrial transformation of child labour. From learning through apprenticeships to being employed as an unskilled, cheap workforce (1550 – 1800). University of Antwerp
Profiles and labour potential amongst long-term unemployed jobseekers University of Antwerp
Casual work arrangements and platform-based work: The casual work agenda as a way to enhance the labour protection of platform workers KU Leuven
The world of work is changing at a considerably high speed. Work arrangements alternative to the standard, open-ended and full-time ones now represent the new reality. These forms of employment include atypical work arrangements such as temporary and casual work, agency work and subcontracting, part-time work, and bogus and dependent self-employment. Work in the gig-economy shares numerous dimensions with all these kind of arrangements. In ...
Improving the Labour Market Position of People with a Migration Background in Belgium (IMMIGBEL). University of Antwerp
Centre of Expertise for Labour market Monitoring KU Leuven
The Centre of Expertise for Labour market Monitoring (CELM) - 'Steunpunt Werk' in Dutch - is a university-based knowledge centre for the monitoring and analysis of the labour market, acting on behalf of the Flemish Government. The Centre is situated at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the KU Leuven.
CELM focuses on the development of indicators, time series, projections and benchmark analyses related to the Flemish labour ...
Collective labour rights for self-employed workers: A human rights-based approach of platform work KU Leuven
My research will focus on the human rights protection of self-employed workers, and specially on workers engaged in the so-called platform economy. This is because they often find themselves in the grey zone between employment and self-employment, an issue that it is certainly not novel. The widespread use of freelance jobs entails the risk of leaving such workers outside the scope of protection of fundamental human rights. Indeed, for ...