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Changing work, changing incomes : designing a responsive social protection system for all: State of the Art
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Abstract
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| Atypical employment, including part-time or fixed-term employment, is on the rise, while also hybrid forms of work have started to emerge, with individuals combining various forms of employment and self-employed activities. Belgian labour law has been “adapted” to accommodate the demand for flexible work by new non-standard work forms. Meanwhile, social insurance regulations are still to a large extent organised around a clear distinction between wage employment and self-employment in Belgium and based on the figure of the full-time worker, causing important gaps in social insurance protection. A reorganisation of contemporary social protection systems around new markers of vulnerability requires an integrated and interdisciplinary re-assessment of the way we organize solidarity. We assess vulnerability among the Belgian active population at large, yet with a specific and explicit focus on the broad group of non-standard workers: self-employed; atypical employees such as part-time, fixed term or agency workers; those combining different jobs, or employment with a self-employed activity; and those in new work forms. We ask how the increasing relevance in legal non-standard work forms can and should be accommodated by a recalibration of social protection. The study examines the existing body of research concerning the status of non-standard workers. From this comprehensive review, we have developed three key research objectives that the CHANGE project aims to address. |
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English
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Belspo
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2023
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13 p.
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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