Industry 4.0 and robots are said to speed up productivity thereby inducing a 'quantum leap' towards the 'end of work' and calling for a complete change of social security institutions that have so far been closely linked to employment. Unconditional basic income is the cry of the day, curiously...

The ESOPE project focused on precarious employment (PE). It sought to study how PE is understood in both scientific and policy terms, what is its incidence, and how it could be explained, paying particular attention to sectoral and policy factors. To do this, the project undertook three main...

The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...

Abstract EnglishAfter the financial crisis of 2007, the refugee crisis that followed and the coronavirus pandemic, policy conditions were formed that favor various types of populism, the escalation of polarization and political ruptures. Thus, in the traditional political forces in general and...