Projects
Precarious employment and health: workers' perceptions of precarious employment and the construction of a measuring instrument for Flanders. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Increasingly, the "standard employment contract" becomes subjected to a process of
"precarisation", resulting in more non-standard and flexible forms of employment.
Epidemiological evidence shows psychological and physical health complaints to be related ...
The micro drivers of aggregate employment KU Leuven
In my PhD thesis, I study how the aggregate employment growth is affected by secular trends or exogenous shocks using quantitative models of firm dynamics and machine learning algorithms in the counterfactual analysis. To this end, I leverage the comprehensive firm-level data for a small open economy, Belgium. It is quarterly data on firm-level employment and wage bill from the National Social Security Office (NSSO) of Belgium on all firms ...
Drawing up a methodology with the aim of obtaining comparable employment statistics at the European and international institutions in the Brussels-capital region and the implementation of it KU Leuven
The aim of this research project is to draw up a methodological framework to produce statistics on employment at the European and international institutions, in such a way that these are similar to the existing official, administrative, Belgian employment statistics. Subsequently, the goal is to realize a pilot of bottom-up data collection and to create a database. To do this, the list of institutions has to be made up to date and completed. ...
Project 7379: Increasing the employment intentions of employers with regard to persons with an occupational disability Ghent University
The employment rate of people with an occupational disability is low in Flanders, certainly in comparison with the situation in Sweden and Finland. The aim of the project is to investigate how the job of the employment broker / coach can be adapted to promote the employment intentions of the employers. Which tools and methodologies can we transform from Sweden, Finland and Ireland into the Flemish context and vice versa?
Interregional mobility: interregional employment zones based on a supply and demand analysis KU Leuven
Despite the labor market tightness in Flanders and high unemployment and inactivity rates in Brussels and Wallonia, the number of Walloons and Brussels residents employed in Flanders remains low. Moreover, there is little research into interregional labor mobility in Belgium. In order to promote interregional labor mobility, a broader framework must be developed in which the potential of cross-border employment zones is explicitly ...
Women's employment and divorce: untangling causes and consequences. University of Antwerp
Women's employment and divorce: untangling causes and consequences University of Antwerp
Employment Risk, Wealth, and Economic Policy in a Monetary Union KU Leuven
The euro area as a currency union shares a monetary policy determined by the European Central Bank. Individual member states are therefore restricted in their response to economic shocks. For my dissertation, I am interested in considering the case of a country within the eurozone, as a small open economy, that is dependent on its monetary policy, but autonomous in its fiscal policy. Research points toward the importance of the interaction ...