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The OSE examines various employment-related topics and participates in several projects in this area. A cross-cutting approach to labour market policies and problems is favoured (social dialogue, restructuring, CSR, quality of work, flexicurity, job insecurity, the working poor, working conditions, governance, etc.), particularly in the context of the European Employment Strategy. Some of these issues constitute specific research topics in their own right and are not included here (see entries on restructuring, social
dialogue and governance).
The OSE has also devoted particular attention to two other issues: quality of work and the working poor.
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Two other topics have received attention from the OSE, namely the quality of employment and the working poor.
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Quality of employment |
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Since 2001, the OSE has been involved in reflection on and the development of a conceptual framework supported by appropriate indicators on the quality of employment in the European Union. This was carried out in cooperation with the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in light of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. The OSE also organised the international conference of the Belgian Presidency on the quality of employment. Reflection on this issue has continued since then, and it has also been the subject of various recent OSE publications.
The OSE recently wrote a working report analysing the data contained in the different European surveys on working conditions (1990-2005) for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions with a view to establishing whether there had been convergence or divergence in the quality of employment over that time in the different European countries. This report is due to be published in the near future:
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Fifteen Years of Working Conditions in Europe: Convergence and Divergence Over Time and Within Europe.
Ramón Peña Casas and Philippe Pochet
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2008 |
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In the framework of its participation in the European network of excellence RECWOWE, the OSE has produced two reports on the tensions between the "quality and quantity" of employment. The first report sets out the state of affairs in terms of the conceptual frameworks and indicators on the quality of employment in the European Union. The second establishes the state of affairs in the gender wage gap in the European Union. These two reports will lead to several forthcoming publications:
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Gender Wage Gap as a Tension Between Quality and Quantity of Jobs in the European Labour Market
Ghailani D. (2009)
In Guillén A.M. and Dahl S.-A. (eds.),
Quality of Work in the European Union -Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational
Perspective, P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels, pp.117-140.
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Monitoring Quality of Work and Employment in the European Union. Conceptual Frameworks and Indicators
Peña-Casas R. (2009)
In Guillén A.M. and Dahl S.-A. (eds.),
Quality of Work in the European Union -Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational
Perspective, P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels, pp.41-85.
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Reducción de la diferencias salariales entre hombres y mujeres como tension entre calidad y cantidad de empleos en el Mercado de trabajo europeo
Ghailani D. (2008)
In Guillén A. and Dahl S-A (eds),
Calidad del trabajo en la Unión Europea. Concepto, tensiones,
dimensiones, Madrid,
Thomson/Civitas.
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Calidad del empleo y del trabajo en el marco de las políticas europeas : cuadros conceptuales y indicadores
Peña-Casas R. (2008)
In Guillén A. and Dahl S-A (eds), Calidad del trabajo en la Unión Europea. Concepto, tensiones, dimensiones, Madrid,
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The Gender Wage Gap in the European Union
Ghailani D. (2007)
Paper for the RECWOWE EU Network of
Excellence
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Quality of Work and Employment in the EU Policy Arena: Conceptual Frameworks and Monitoring Indicators
Peña-Casas R. (2007)
Paper for the RECWOWE EU Network of Excellence, 2007
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The Working Poor |
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The OSE has also contributed to the study of the emerging issue of the working poor in the European Union. The working poor, who are workers in households with an overall income falling below the poverty threshold, are by definition a category in which several policies overlap (employment, poverty and social protection) the interaction of which is complex.
A detailed report was written in 2004 on behalf of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions with a view to clarifying the conceptual approach to the issue:
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Working Poor in the EU - a Literature Survey, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Ramón Peña Casas and Mia Latta
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 2004 |
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Through its participation in the European Network of Excellence RECWOWE, the OSE is actively participating in research currently underway on the working poor in Europe and the interaction between this issue and the tension there is between the quality and quantity of jobs.
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Earnings Inequality and In-Work Poverty
Peña-Casas R., Gutiérrez Palacios, R. et Guillén A.M. (2009)
In Guillén A.M. and Dahl S.-A. (eds.),
Quality of Work in the European Union -Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational
Perspective, P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels, pp.87-116.
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Desigualdad de ingresos y trabajadores pobres
Peña Casas R., Guillén A. and Gutiérrez R.
In Guillén A. and Dahl S-A (eds), Calidad del trabajo en la Unión Europea. Concepto, tensiones, dimensiones, Madrid, Thomson/Civitas, 2008 |
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Young People in the Labour Market |
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In the framework of the European YOUTH project coordinated by CESOS, the OSE in 2008 focussed on the issue of the integration of young people into the labour market in Belgium. The objective of this project was to give a complete overview of current practices in the integration of young persons in the 27 EU countries and to identify possible best practices. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. Various experts participated in drawing up the national studies. The OSE has prepared a national report for Belgium.
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Pathways to Work: Current Practices and Future Needs for the Labour Market Integration of Young People. Project YOUTH: Young People in Occupations and Unemployment: Thinking of their better integration in the labour market. National report Belgium.
Dalila Ghailani
Report for Belgium, project coordinated by CESOS for the European Commission, 2008
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Posted workers |
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The increasing unification of Europe and the resulting greater mobility of workers is clearly reflected in a rise in the number of posted workers. Increasingly, workers are sent abroad by their employers for a short duration, particularly in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. Posting has significant consequences in the field of work and on social security, two areas in which the Community legislator has intervened. In 2004, at the behest of the EURESCHANNEL network, the OSE therefore conducted a study on this issue covering the three abovementioned Member States. This study aimed both to be theoretical and practical. The first part gives an overview of the principles applying to the posting of workers under Community law. The second illustrates the scale of the phenomenon in the three Member States concerned, and more specifically examines whether the cross-border regions of Hainaut, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, West Flanders and Kent can identified as regions that are particularly concerned by posting. The OSE also examined on this occasion the issue of the "salary split" and produced a report on the reasons for, the functioning of as well as the consequences of the use of such a mechanism. These reports were presented during an international conference on cross-border workers.
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