Projects
A golden age for labour? Economic inequality and labour income after the Black Death: Flanders and Tuscany compared (1350-1500). University of Antwerp
A golden age for labour? Economic inequality and labour income after the Black Death: Flanders and Tuscany compared (1350-1500). University of Antwerp
Agriculture, wage labour and household economies in eighteenthcentury Flanders: a regional and integrated analysis. Ghent University
During the eighteenth century the Flemish countryside experienced profound structural change.
Agricultural production increased and diversified, population rose by some 60 per cent and
agricultural holdings were increasingly subdivided. This project views this changes through the lens
of the labour market for agricultural labour. The first objective of this project consists of a
reconstruction of ...
Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe KU Leuven
Four megatrends - technological transformations, globalisation, climate warming and demographic changes - reshape labour markets, redefine opportunities and risks, and pose new challenges for welfare states in the EU. WeLaR aims to fill knowledge gaps about these processes by pursuing two main goals: (i) provide a comprehensive and comparative diagnosis of the effects on megatrends on labour market risks and challenges for welfare states; ...
Lords, land, and labour. The influence of seigneuries on economic development in the late medieval Low Countries (c. 1350 – c. 1550) Ghent University
This project probes the impact of political elites on pre-modern economies. The central concept is the seigneurie, the institution that cemented the rural elite’s power over populations in the countryside. Seigneuries impacted upon the rural economy through their powers of surplus extraction that proceeded from coercion rather than market exchange. Yet, while elite rent-seeking infringed on the income of the peasantry, the macro-economic ...
Essays in Economics of the Labor Market KU Leuven
In the first chapter, I study the impact on workers' future earnings of passing through the most pivotal firms for the employees' careers. I label these companies 'hub firms', and endogenously identify them from the job-to-job network of the universe of workers in the Italian private sector between 1983 and 2018. I investigate the mechanism behind higher future wages disentangling the human capital accumulation effect from the signaling one. ...