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Citizens’ views on (un)conditionality in the activating welfare state: What determines public attitudes towards work obligations attached to social rights? KU Leuven
Contemporary welfare states are often referred to as activating welfare states because of the activation shift that has taken place during the last decades. In this framework, individuals need to be economically active and re-enter the labour market quickly when they are jobless. While the principle of welfare conditionality is central in the activation turn, and in demanding active labour market policies specifically, the principle of ...
Socialna aktivacija v Sloveniji : potrebe, izkušnje in izzivi KU Leuven
In the last decades, European welfare states have evolved from the concept of welfare with weak or no conditionality to a concept of welfare through work (workfare). In this context, the concept of activation of 'passive' recipients of minimum income benefits has also emerged in Slovene employment and social policy. Despite economic growth the number of minimum income recipients and beneficiaries has been increasing. Based on the assumption that ...
Poor boys, poor chances? Training underprivileged youngsters in early modern Antwerp (1580–1780) University of Antwerp
It is generally assumed that from the eighteenth century onwards new manufacturing processes stimulated a type of child labour that was unprecedented in the pre-industrial period. The increasingly mechanised production of standardised goods would have resulted in an enormous increase in the number of children who were working as cheap, unskilled labourers in Europe’s large ateliers and earliest factories. The accompanying deskilling of ...
Experiences of insecurity among non-standard workers across different welfare states: A qualitative cross-country study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In recent decades, economic crises and political reforms focused on employment flexibilization have increased the use of non-standard employment (NSE). National political and economic contexts determine how employers interact with labour and how the state interacts with labour markets and manages social welfare policies. These factors influence the prevalence of NSE and the level of employment insecurity it creates, but the extent to which a ...
Empirical welfare analysis with preference heterogeneity KU Leuven
We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal comparison, more explicit. Information on preference heterogeneity is ...
The Sustainability of Survivor's Benefits in the Adult Worker Model: Incorporation of New Social Risks Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Due to important economic, socio-demographic and cultural changes, western welfare states are being challenged to re-evaluate the form and content of their arrangements, originating in the post-war period and based on the male, sole, breadwinner with stable employment as the modal beneficiary and focal point of policy (hereafter: 'breadwinner model'). Today, the participation rate of women has risen quite dramatically and renders the breadwinner ...
Robotisering en arbeidsrecht : Een juridisch onderzoek naar humanisering van arbeid en technologie 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 ...
Research into shifting taxes on labour to the environment Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
International institutions such as the European Commission and the OECD have on a number of occasions drawn attention to the unbalanced tax regime in our country. Our tax system places a relatively heavy burden on labour, while other areas, such as capital, consumption or environmentally polluting activities, are relatively little used. The Federal Government has therefore taken steps to achieve a tax shift that should relieve the burden on ...
Smart policies or sheer luck ? Labour market resilience in the low countries KU Leuven
This article explores the labour market resilience of Belgium and the Netherlands. We define labour market resilience as the capacity of labour markets to resist, withstand or quickly recover from negative exogenous shocks and disturbances and to renew, adjust or reorientate in order to benefit from positive shocks. This article focuses on the labour market consequences of the crisis in these two countries and discusses their policy responses. ...