Projects
The Business case for diversity Hasselt University
Policy Research Centre 2012 Work and Social Economy - CELM. KU Leuven
Research on empowerment of women with a migration background KU Leuven
Antwerp is a diverse city in all its facets, including gender and origin. To generate more equal opportunities, the city wants to put all its efforts into increasing the participation of women with a migration background (=VMMA) in society. This is not only about participation in the labour market, but also about social and civic participation. That is why the city wanted to examine which thresholds in society (discrimination, childcare, ...
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. ...
Do schools and teachers leave their mark? Studies on long-term effects of schools and teachers on student outcomes KU Leuven
In the field of educational effectiveness research, teacher and school effects are most often studied in the short term. Long-term school and teacher effects are less often studied and the findings are inconsistent. The objective of this dissertation is to study long-term school and teacher effects. The main question is: do schools or teachers still influence students’ outcomes at the moment these students already changed school or teacher? ...
Transport infrastructure and regional development in China during the Maoist era KU Leuven
1. Introduction
This project aims to investigate the link between transport infrastructure and regional economic development in China during the Mao era. Economists argue that public investments have a positive impact on economic growth for a number of reasons. As we will elaborate in what follows, the Chinese story contains many unique and intriguing elements which complicate this statement. A thorough investigation of the topic will ...
Scientific and methodological support for the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis (BISA) of perspective.brussels - Lot 4: Demography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interdisciplinary Research Programme: Brussels Centre for Urban Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Professional Roles and Employability of Future EngineeRs KU Leuven
The PREFER project (Professional Roles and Employability of Future EngineeRs) aims to reduce the skills mismatch in the field of engineering: new engineering graduates frequently display a lack of transversal skills required by the labour market. Enterprises observe a lack of self-awareness among new engineering graduates of who they are as an engineer and what their strengths are. Despite appropriate levels of technical skills, enterprises ...