Formal and informal work in europe. a comparative analysis of their changing relationship and their impact on social integration

Objective

The project looks into the changes of work activities that result from the decline of formal work and the rise of informal work in Europe. This process varies with the diversity of institutional and cultural contexts that characterise national societies in Europe. Two goals will be targeted: to understand the changing relationship between formal and informal work in European societies selected such that they cover a maximum of institutional and cultural difference; and to identify the social consequences of such changes in terms of social cohesion in an emerging European society. Such knowledge is a precondition for devising political interventions into the social make-up of Europeanising labour markets taking into account the growing importance of informal work as a relevant parameter for such policy making.

Programme(s)

• FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002)

Topic(s)

• 1.4.1.-4. - Key action Socio-Economic Knowledge Base

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG

Address

Bundesstrasse 55
20146 Hamburg
Germany

Participants (5)

AALBORG UNIVERSITY

Denmark

Address

Fibigerstraede 1
9220 Aalborg

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

Spain

Address

Campus Bellaterra - Edifici B - Facultat De Scien
08193 Bellaterra

CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS

Poland

Address

Rackowicka Street, 27
31 510 Krakow

UNIVERSITY OF JOENSUU

Finland

Address

Siltakatu 2
80101 Joensuu

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

United Kingdom

Address

University Road, Highfield
SO17 1BJ Southampton