Projects
Intergenerational social mobility and welfare state regimes from a gendered perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel
L'Aide au domicile des personnes fragiles en Allemagne, Belgique, Angleterre et Italie, une comparaison des régimes de care dans un contexte en profonde mutation. University of Antwerp
Legitimate Alternative Regulation in Regulatory Regimes (GOBAREG). University of Antwerp
Talking solidarity: how do citizens of different welfare states frame solidarity in their interactions? University of Antwerp
Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven
This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system that had ...
Growth Welfare Innovation Productivity KU Leuven
Well before the Great Recession, the strikingly successful socio-economic regime of growth of the three decades after WWII came to an end as the smooth matching among technological innovation, productivity growth, income distribution and aggregate demand increasingly broke down. However, a new virtuous regime is hardly emerging and growth of income and productivity remains sluggish especially in Europe. The project is meant to investigate the ...