Work and Welfare
Our research contributes to several major policy debates in regards to work and welfare:
- Earnings dynamics, Labour Market ‘flexibility’ and income security.
- Unemployment, Policies of welfare to work as vehicles for addressing poverty and social exclusion, and for reinforcing active citizenship
- Gender inequalities, female employment and the trade-offs between domestic caring and employment.
- Renewed debates around the quality of work and its contribution to wellbeing, including in the context of managed retirement.
Our research in this area
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| Fairness and efficiency wages. Identity discrimination in labour markets. |
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| Social movements (urban, rural, indigenous) and new forms of work, community projects and new cooperatives. Labour movements and the state in Latin America. Globalisation, unemployment, movements of unemployed workers and changes in labour identity and subjectivity. |
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| Unemployment, especially youth unemployment, earnings and income dynamics, welfare to work programmes. | |
| Female employment and how this relates to poverty, inequality and welfare reform policies. | |
| Labour recommodification and the European political economy. Comparative employment protection and unemployment compensation policies. The meta-governance of industrial relations in the EU. The Peer Review Process in the European Employment Strategy. Older workers, retirement and activation. |
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| Motherhood, disability and access to work. | |
| Labour flexibility and the development of the precariat. Workfare and the feasibility of basic income schemes. |
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| Anatomical Pathology Technologists and the work of funeral directors. The cost of dying: the Social Fund and welfare support. |
