At today’s #CSBLunchSeminar, our colleague Cato Desmyter presented insightful research on how unstable work patterns shape poverty risks across European welfare states and the extent to which social protection systems can buffer these risks.
#EmploymentInstability #PovertyRisk #LabourMarket

Today our colleague Kilian Van Looy presented his research “The Curious Case of the Flexi-Job Scheme in Belgium” at the #CSBLunchSeminar series.

#FlexiJobs #LabourMarket #SocialPolicy #Research

Yesterday we welcomed Hyojin Seo (King’s College London) for our #CSBLunchSeminar on labour market segmentation, outsider trajectories, and gendered barriers in the South Korean labour market.
#LabourMarketSegmentation #EmploymentTrajectories #Research

Yesterday, Mark Visser (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) shared his research on how work-family trajectories and welfare states shape retirement outcomes. Thank you, Mark, for inspiring discussions on aging, retirement, and social policy!

#Retirement #WelfareState #SocialPolicy #CSBLunchSeminar

Today, our own Quinten Bronckars presented his research “Food Aid Under Pressure: Perspectives for the Future” at the #CSBLunchSeminar. He discussed how food aid increasingly supplements inadequate minimum incomes, the growing pressures on food banks, and three avenues to re‑envision support.

Yesterday we hosted Jaewook Lee (Universiteit Leiden) for our #CSBLunchSeminar on whether macroeconomic prospects influence welfare chauvinism in Europe.
#WelfareState #Attitudes #SocialPolicy #Research

We recently had the pleasure to host, Inés Guillemyn for our #CSBLunchSeminar to talk about how child penalties in Belgium extend to employer pension contributions.
#ChildPenalty #Pensions #GenderInequality