De nombreux conflits entre les sportifs de haut niveau et leur employeur ont éclaté ces dernières années, mettant en avant la dimension syndicale dans ce secteur, jusqu’ici peu connue du grand public. Ce rapport a pour objectif, outre de rappeler les principales caractéristiques du...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the crisis has affected current and future perspectives for job quantity and quality from a gender standpoint. It starts with a summarised overview of existing literature on the gendered effects of economic downturns. It continues with a statistical...

La Région de Bruxelles-Capitale connait depuis plusieurs années une croissance très importante de sa population, qui sera amenée à encore augmenter fortement dans les années à venir. Cela implique des défis cruciaux pour la Région, en termes de logements, d’infrastructure, d’emplois...

RÉSUMÉ :La présente contribution explore les implications budgétaires attendue pour le Pouvoir fédéral et les Entités fédérées suite à la 6ème réforme de l’Etat, en particulier le transfert de compétences et les modifications apportées à la Loi Spéciale de Financement. La Loi...

The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the offshoring intensity measure by computing a volume measure of the share of imported intermediates...

This paper analyses disparity in women’s pay across 20 European countries using EU-SILC 2006. First, a selectivity-adjusted gender pay gap is computed and examined in each of the countries. Next, the impact of parenthood is analysed. We show that women suffer a wage disadvantage compared with...

En Belgique, la question de la formation des salaries n’échappe pas à la communautarisation des débats. Parmi les réformes suggérées apparaît de manière récurrente la régionalisation des négociations salariales. Ses partisans estiment notamment que les différences de productivité...

This paper aims at assessing the impact of R&D activities on the number of patents applied by Belgian R&D manufacturing firms in the mid nineties. The paper extends previous work on the R&D-patent relationship by distinguishing different types as well as sources of financing of R&D activities....

This paper relates the volatility of interest rates to the collective nature of monetary policymaking in monetary unions. Several decision rules are modelled, including hegemonic and democratic procedures, and also committees headed by a chairman. A ranking of decision rules in terms of the...

In this paper, we study the impact of the presence of young children on parents' labour market participation and employment patterns and their implication in terms of working hours and employment continuity in 24 European countries. The results show that motherhood has an important and negative...