Call 18: Summer school ‘Vulnerable groups on the labour market’ – determinants and consequences of economic vulnerability across Europe
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Event report
General information
The Spring School will combine lessons on substantive topics in the mornings with methodological workshops in quantitative methods in the afternoons. Participants will be encouraged to present their own research to receive feedback from senior researchers. The Spring School targets early career scholars (PhD students/postdocs/early-stage researchers) with basic (multivariate regression) or advanced quantitative training.
Focus
In “risk” or “uncertain” societies, vulnerability is a growing concern for individuals, political leaders, and academics. The European Commission describes vulnerable groups as groups that experience a higher risk of poverty and social exclusion than the general population. These groups include for instance ethnic minorities, migrants, disabled people, those struggling with substance abuse but also sexual minorities and younger people. All of them often face difficulties that can lead to further social exclusion, such as low levels of education and unemployment or underemployment.
Against this background, the Spring School will focus on identifying the (combinations) of individual-level characteristics that predict the extent to which people are in a vulnerable labour market position. It employs an intersectional perspective to measuring vulnerability and pays particular attention to the identification of vulnerable groups in different European datasets. Moreover, the Spring School aims to offer participants an overview of causes and consequences of belonging to a ‘vulnerable’ group on labour outcomes. It will also provide a clear understanding of how to identify and analyze vulnerable groups over time and across countries. In addition, the topic will be approached from a political and organizational perspective by introducing and discussing solutions and best practices in Europe.
About InGRID-2
The Spring School is part of the working conditions and vulnerability pillar of InGRID2, a large research infrastructure network aimed at integrating existing research resources in the area of ‘poverty and living conditions’ and ‘working conditions and vulnerability’ by providing transnational data access, organizing mutual knowledge exchange activities and improving methods and tools for comparative research. This integration will provide the related European scientific community with new and better opportunities to fulfil its key role in the development of evidence-based European policies for Inclusive Growth.
Programme
1 April 2019: Introduction to vulnerable groups on the labour market
Sandwich Lunch and Registration
Welcome, aims of the spring seminar, presentation of the InGRID2 project - Brief self-introduction of participants
SESSION 1a: Determinants and consequences of labour market
vulnerability – an overview
Dr. Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Amsterdam & Université de Lausanne)
Poster presentations with coffee and tea
P1: Shaban Darakchi
P2: Hassina Kiboua
P3: Patrick McDonald
SESSION 1b: Participant presentations
Job quality of young adults in times of economic turbulences
Julia Weiss
Did the Great Recession limit chances for intergenerational mobility? Evidence from 32 European countries
Jad Moawad
Temporary employment and subjective well-being: Empirically testing the latent deprivation model within and across European countries
Sonja Scheuring
2 April 2019: Defining and measuring vulnerability
SESSION 2a: Defining vulnerability, social groups and vulnerability outcomes
Dr. Cécile Thoreau (OECD)
Lunch
SESSION 2b: PC lab: Challenges to identify and measure vulnerable groups in quantitative data
Dr. Marine Coupaud (ESSCA School of Management, Bordeaux)
Poster presentations with coffee and tea
P1: Bertina Kreshpaj
P2: Federico Filetti
P3: Jakub Kostolny
SESSION 2c: Participant presentations
The impact of economic precariousness on the union formation of British adults
Lydia Palumbo
What is it that we are measuring? Towards a comprehensive analysis of the social location and association with self-reported and mental health of non-standard employment arrangements
Eva Padrosa Sayeras
The duplicity of solo self-employment. A multilevel perspective on what makes solo self-employment a good or a bad choice for work engagement
Jessie Geveart
3 April 2019: Challenges in analyzing vulnerability over the life course
SESSION 3a: Vulnerability over the life course
Dr. Anne Hartung (University of Luxembourg)
Lunch
SESSION 3b: PC-Lab – Introduction to age-year-period
Dr. Eyal Bar-Haim (University of Luxembourg)
Poster presentations with coffee and tea
P1: Kadija Charni
P2: Konstantinos Chountas
P3: Patricia Neidlinger
SESSION 3c: Participant presentations
Stuck in a time warp: the impact of the Great Recession on Migrants’ socio-occuptional integration in Spain
Juan Ramón Jímenez-García
LGB(T)s in the labor market: Introducing the SOEP-LGB project
Mirjam Fischer
Disabilities and professional inequalities in France: discrepancies that widen over the life course
Célia Bouchet
4 April 2019: Challenges in comparing vulnerable groups across countries
SESSION 4a: Variations in membership of vulnerable groups and their labour market outcomes across countries
Dr. Rense Nieuwenhuis (Swedish Institute for Social Research, SOFI)
Lunch
SESSION 4b: PC-Lab – Introduction to multi-level modeling with Stata
Dr. Janna Besamusca
Poster presentations with coffee and tea
P1: Muhammad Wajid Tahir
P2: Stefania Sechi
SESSION 4c: Participant presentations
Gender Differences in Effects of Labor Market Status on Subjective Well-Being Across European Welfare Regimes
Judit Kalman
Deregulation, self-employment, and economic integration: the 2004 reform of the German trade and crafts code as a natural experiment
Jeremy Kuhnle
Early motherhood as an alternative career? The role of education, employment insecurity and social policies
Anna Gerlach
5 April 2019: Roundtable: How can policy address multiple discrimination and complex vulnerabilities – political solutions and best practices
Welcome
Roundtable discussion with invited guests
Moderator: Paulien Osse (Director WageIndicator Foundation)
with:
Ms. Fatima Elatik (former district mayor Amsterdam Oost, diversity consultant Amsterdam police department)
Dr. Marloes de Graaf-Zijl (Unemployment Office, UWV)
Mr. Daniel Waagmeester (Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment)
Concluding session
Venue
The Spring School is organized by the AISSR, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
All sessions take place at the university’s Roeterseiland campus in the centre of Amsterdam.
Timing
Start: Monday, 01 April 2019 - End: Friday, 05 April 2019.
Contact
Steinmetz, Stephanie (S.M.Steinmetz@uva.nl)
Besamusca, Janna (J.Besamusca@uva.nl)
