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According to the last WESO report, there are over 1.4bn workers in vulnerable jobs worldwide, with numbers expected to rise in 2020 due to COVID-19. Several attempts have been made at both domestic and international levels to address these concerns. This includes efforts through the Sustainable Development Goals process, which includes a specific statistical indicator to measure informal employment (8.3.1), the formulation of SDG8 (decent work) and SDG9 (sustainable industrialization). Across countries and world regions, the degree to which SDGs have been used to address youth issues and inform national policies varies significantly. Indeed, in spite of the fact that the great majority of states have formally committed to addressing the SDGs, including those related to insecure employment, there is little evidence to indicate that developing regions currently have the capacity to systematically study the problems if informal employment and vulnerability in ways that facilitate the development and implementation of concrete viable solutions. This is due, in our view, to two major challenges. First, although a number of approaches that have been used inside the EU, there has been little, if any, attempt to adapt the existing framework elsewhere. Second, no systematic review of anti-precariousness policy has been attempted beyond the EU region. LABOUR is a research and training programme designed to address the above-mentioned shortfalls of research and development approaches with particular attention to a region where this is particularly worrying concern.
Informal employment in Asia is estimated to account for 68.2% of the active population. By gathering a team of 14 participants that includes academic and non-academic partners working on labour insecurity, we aim not only at producing specialists on the topic and on the region but also at proposing concrete mitigation measures that can be taken into account by decision-makers and development organisations.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRIA-Iscte | Research Group Livelihoods, Politics and Inequalities | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Institution | Country | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stockholm University (Stockholm University) | Sweden | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Tallinn University (TU) | Estonia | Leader | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Marmara University (MU) | Turkey | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| University Of Latvia (LU) | Latvia | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (DCU) | Ireland | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Universitatea De Stat Din Moldova (MOLDOVA STATE UNIVERSITY MSU) | Moldova | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Iscte - Instituto Universitário De Lisboa (Iscte) | Portugal | Partner | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antónia Lima | Professora Associada (com Agregação) (DA); Integrated Researcher (CRIA-Iscte); | Local Coordinator | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| Antonio Maria Pusceddu | Research Fellow (DA); Integrated Researcher (CRIA-Iscte); | Researcher | 2021-10-21 | 2025-10-20 |
| Catarina Frois | Professora Associada (com Agregação) (DA); Integrated Researcher (CRIA-Iscte); | Researcher | 2021-10-21 | 2025-10-20 |
| Reference/Code | Funding DOI | Funding Type | Funding Program | Funding Amount (Global) | Funding Amount (Local) | Begin Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101007766 | -- | Contract | European Commission - H2020-MSCA-RISE-2020 | 1 545 600.00€ | 248400 | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
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With the objective to increase the research activity directed towards the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the possibility of associating scientific projects with the Sustainable Development Goals is now available in Ciência_Iscte. These are the Sustainable Development Goals identified for this project. For more detailed information on the Sustainable Development Goals, click here.
