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Employment and social affairs

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Mehtap Akgüç

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Sara Baiocco

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Mikkel Barslund

Research Fellow and Head of Ageing Societies Programme

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Head of Unit / Research

Miroslav Beblavy

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Jobs and Skills Unit

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Zachary Kilhoffer

Researcher

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Sustainability in the Age of Platforms

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CEPS-World Bank Discussion

on The Changing Nature of Work in the EU

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Workshop on Platform Economy in Belgium

Work-life Balance, De-familisation and Adult Worker Models

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Project Meeting

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Work-life Balance, De-familisation and Adult Worker Models

Challenges faced by older workers

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Conference

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Digitized Labor

Policies for an ageing workforce

Work-life balance, working conditions and equal opportunities

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Conference

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Tackling Inequality

The role of fiscal policy

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Seminar

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Equipping populations with the skills

to shape and secure their digital future

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Effects of EU’s anti-smuggling policies

on civil society actors

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Preventing inequality in ageing

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Conference

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More than just a passport

Does access to citizenship accelerate the social integration of immigrants?

How the Internet Creates More Jobs than it Destroys

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Debate

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How the Internet Creates More Jobs than it Destroys

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An EU-Africa partnership scheme for human capital formation and skill mobility

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Mattia Di Salvo / Nadzeya Laurentsyeva / Luca Lixi / Lars Ludolph

Project Report

20 June 2019

Authors

Daniel Gros / Cinzia Alcidi

Research Paper

05 April 2019

Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Age of Collaborative Economy

Authors

Mehtap Akgüç / Miroslav Beblavy / Zachary Kilhoffer

Project Report

21 December 2018

Author

Mehtap Akgüç

Project Report

21 December 2018

Author

Karolien Lenaerts

Project Report

21 December 2018

The impact of refugees on the labour market

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Mattia Di Salvo / Nadzeya Laurentsyeva

Policy Contribution

08 October 2018

Digital Age-Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts

Research Paper

24 September 2018

Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts / Irene Mandl

Research Paper

27 September 2018

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts / Elias Felten

Project Report

02 July 2018

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts / Elias Felten

Project Report

02 July 2018

Authors

Mattia Di Salvo / Mikkel Barslund / Nadzeya Laurentsyeva / Lars Ludolph

Project Report

15 June 2018

Online Talent Platforms, Labour Market Intermediaries and the Changing World of Work

Authors

Karolien Lenaerts / Willem Pieter De Groen / Zachary Kilhoffer / Romain Bosc / Nicolas Salez

Project Report

16 May 2018

The Internet and Jobs: Opportunities and ambiguous trends

Authors

Lorenzo Pupillo / Eli Noam / Leonard Waverman

Policy Contribution

21 February 2018

What is happening with platform workers’ rights? Lessons from Belgium

Authors

Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts

Policy Contribution

31 October 2017

The Internet and Jobs: A giant opportunity for Europe

Author

William Echikson

Policy Contribution

02 November 2017

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse / Frederic De Wispelaere

Policy Contribution

26 October 2017

Author

Miroslav Beblavy

Policy Contribution

18 September 2017

The Platform Economy and Industrial Relations: Applying the old framework to the new reality

Authors

Zachary Kilhoffer / Karolien Lenaerts / Miroslav Beblavy

Research Paper

07 August 2017

Impact of digitalisation and the on-demand economy on labour markets and the consequences for employment and industrial relations

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Karolien Lenaerts / Romain Bosc / Félix Paquier

Policy Contribution

28 July 2017

Government Responses to the Platform Economy: Where do we stand?

Authors

Karolien Lenaerts / Miroslav Beblavy / Zachary Kilhoffer

Policy Contribution

27 July 2017

Unemployment Insurance in America: A model for Europe?

Authors

Karolien Lenaerts / Félix Paquier / Suzanne Simonetta

Policy Contribution

26 June 2017

Sharing responsibility for refugees and expanding legal migration

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Mehtap Akgüç / Nadzeya Laurentsyeva / Lars Ludolph

Project Report

02 June 2017

Fiscal Risk Sharing and Resilience to Shocks: Lessons for the euro area from the US

Authors

Cinzia Alcidi / Gilles Thirion

Policy Contribution

31 May 2017

Design of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Karolien Lenaerts / Ilaria Maselli

Research Paper

21 February 2017

Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefits Scheme

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Karolien Lenaerts

Research Paper

10 February 2017

Stabilising the European Economic and Monetary Union: What to expect from a common unemployment benefits scheme?

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Karolien Lenaerts

Research Paper

10 February 2017

A European Unemployment Benefits Scheme: Lessons from Canada

Author

Donna E. Wood

Policy Contribution

30 January 2017

The proposed mobility package may not have much effect on mobility, but what about politics?

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse

Policy Contribution

16 December 2016

Will a European unemployment benefits scheme affect labour mobility?

Authors

Cinzia Alcidi / Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse / Francesco Nicoli

Research Paper

06 December 2016

Assessing the Euro Area’s Shock-Absorption Capacity: Risk sharing, consumption smoothing and fiscal policy

Authors

Cinzia Alcidi / Gilles Thirion

Research Paper

29 September 2016

The Legal and Operational Feasibility of a European Unemployment Benefits Scheme at the National Level

Authors

Michael Coucheir / Grega Strban / Harald Hauben

Research Paper

26 September 2016

The Stabilisation Properties of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

Author

Daniel Gros

Policy Contribution

14 September 2016

A European Unemployment Benefits Scheme: The rationale and the challenges ahead

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Gabriele Marconi / Ilaria Maselli

Research Paper

23 September 2015

Occupations Observatory – Methodological Note

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Mehtap Akgüç / Brian Fabo / Karolien Lenaerts

Research Paper

19 August 2016

Labour Mobility in the EU: Addressing challenges and ensuring ‘fair mobility’

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse

Research Paper

01 July 2016

How mobile is tech talent? A case study of IT professionals based on data from LinkedIn

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse

Research Paper

30 June 2016

The Impact of the Collaborative Economy on the Labour Market

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Ilaria Maselli

Research Paper

03 June 2016

Institutional Moral Hazard in the Multi-tiered Regulation of Unemployment and Social Assistance Benefits

Authors

Frank Vandenbroucke / Chris Luigjes

Research Paper

27 April 2016

The Digital Market for Local Services: A one-night stand for workers? An example from the on-demand economy

Authors

Willem Pieter De Groen / Ilaria Maselli / Brian Fabo

Research Paper

04 April 2016

Five things we need to know about the on-demand economy

Authors

Ilaria Maselli / Karolien Lenaerts / Miroslav Beblavy

08 January 2016

Digital workers by design? An example from the on-demand economy

Authors

Ilaria Maselli / Brian Fabo

Policy Contribution

19 October 2015

Home ownership, labour markets and the economic crisis

Author

Sylvain Bouyon

Policy Contribution

16 June 2015

The case for a European unemployment benefit scheme

Authors

Ilaria Maselli / Miroslav Beblavy

Policy Contribution

19 May 2015

No Move without Free Movement: The EU-Swiss controversy over quotas for free movement of persons

Authors

Sergio Carrera / Elspeth Guild / Katharina Eisele

Policy Contribution

23 April 2015

Labour Mobility in Europe: An untapped resource?

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse / Joscha Schwarzwälder

Policy Contribution

03 March 2015

An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area: A simulation exercise of two options

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Ilaria Maselli

Research Paper

09 December 2014

Reinsurance of National Unemployment Benefit Schemes

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Daniel Gros / Ilaria Maselli

Policy Contribution

06 January 2015

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse

Task Force Report

07 October 2014

Time for some shock (absorption): Reinsurance of national unemployment insurance should be a Commission priority

Authors

Miroslav Beblavy / Ilaria Maselli

Policy Contribution

01 October 2014

Authors

Mikkel Barslund / Matthias Busse

Policy Contribution

27 May 2013

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01 May 2017 - 30 April 2021

InGRID-2

Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion 2

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Ongoing Project

01 January 2017 - 31 December 2020

EENEE

European Experts Network on Economics of Education

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Ongoing Project

01 May 2016 - 01 December 2019

MEDAM

Mercator Dialogue on Migration and Asylum

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01 January 2017 - 31 December 2018

IRSDACE

Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue in the Age of Collaborative Economy

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01 March 2017 - 31 December 2017

RESL.eu

Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe

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Past Project

01 March 2014 - 30 September 2017

STYLE

Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe

Review of collaborative economy labour platforms in the EU

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01 December 2016 - 31 August 2017

Review of collaborative economy labour platforms in the EU

Impact of Digitalisation and on-demand economy on labour markets and consequences for employment and industrial relations

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Past Project

01 July 2016 - 01 July 2017

Impact of Digitalisation and on-demand economy on labour markets and consequences for employment and industrial relations

Cumulative Costs Assessment (CCA) of the EU Ceramics and Glass Industries

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01 November 2015 - 31 May 2017

Cumulative Costs Assessment (CCA) of the EU Ceramics and Glass Industries

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Past Project

01 March 2013 - 28 February 2017

MoPAct

Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe

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Past Project

01 February 2013 - 31 January 2017

InGRID

Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion

Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

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Past Project

16 February 2015 - 27 January 2017

Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

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Past Project

01 January 2014 - 31 December 2016

SIMPACT

Boosting the Impact of Social Innovation in Europe through Economic Underpinnings

Analysis of a ‘Sharing Economy’ platform active in the field of personal Services

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Past Project

01 December 2015 - 31 March 2016

Analysis of a ‘Sharing Economy’ platform active in the field of personal Services

Impact of the collaborative economy on the labour market

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Past Project

01 February 2016 - 01 March 2016

Impact of the collaborative economy on the labour market

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Past Project

01 February 2011 - 31 January 2015

NEUJOBS

Employment 2025: How multiple transitions will affect the European labour market

Related Task Forces

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The Quantity and Quality of Human Capital

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Past Task Force

16 April 2013 - 12 May 2014

The Quantity and Quality of Human Capital

Comparing the EU, US and China

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Past Task Force

16 December 2013 - 12 March 2014

Labour Mobility in the EU

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Past Task Force

03 July 2003 - 02 April 2004

Obstacles to European Labour Mobility

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Past Task Force

16 October 2002 - 05 March 2004

Demography and Ageing

Cross-Border Portability of Pension Rights

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Past Task Force

27 June 2001 - 09 December 2002

Cross-Border Portability of Pension Rights

An Important Condition for an Integrated Market for Pension Provision

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Equipping populations with the skills

to shape and secure their digital future

Effects of EU’s anti-smuggling policies

on civil society actors

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