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Wouter Zwysen
@wzwysen.bsky.social
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Researcher at European trade union institute. Interested in social inequalities, migration, and the future of work.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Dec 19
Happy to share new @etui.bsky.social report on labour market monopsony and workers' bargaining power
www.etui.org/publications...
I review how workers' bargaining position and their wages are pushed down by (1) labour market concentration; and (2) a growing use of anti-competitive contract clauses
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Stan De Spiegelaere @standespiegelaere.bsky.social · Jul 28
‘Op een dag vind je de job van je leven, maar je mag (of kan) niet weg'

Een @knack.be stuk samen met @wzwysen.bsky.social voor @denktankminerva.be over concurrentie op de arbeidsmarkt.

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'Op een dag vind je de job van je leven, maar je mag niet weg: pleidooi  voor een evenwichtigere en efficiëntere arbeidsmarkt'
“Op een dag vind je de job van je leven, en dan ben je weg natuurlijk”. Deze oude JobAt slogan doet velen dagelijks dagdromen over andere en betere
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Jul 9
Frank Bauer at IAB discusses evaluation of a German law integrating vulnerable workers into the labour market. Analysis indicates it is more therapeutical than productive work. Tanya Ewertowska presents research on youth resistance trajectories at work, often collectively.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Jul 9
Marion Mauchassee and Hugo Rouzade show very interesting analyses on fixed-term contract hiring in France, showing structural use of contracts under a month in certain sectors.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Jul 9
First day at @sasemeeting.bsky.social , with interesting session on precarious work. Kiran Mirchandansi & Michelle Buckley present subcontracting at University of Toronto, showing increased fragmentation and declining working conditions.
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Marc Steiert @mbsteiert.bsky.social · May 12
The Traineeship Directive will be a crucial test case for the direction of EU youth employment regulation .

Give the WP a look 👀!

It has been one of my most exciting research projects of this past year 🌞! Thank you @karabadjieva.bsky.social and @wzwysen.bsky.social
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Alexandre Afonso @alexandreafonso.bsky.social · May 5
For wonks, this is very interesting on how Hungary may have fiddled its income data to make it look like poverty was smaller than it was. Look at the suspicious clustering of incomes just *above the poverty line* in 2018 and 2021 vs 2014 and 2015.
www.valaszonline.hu/2025/04/11/r...
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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · Mar 28
Belangrijke blog van @distasioval.bsky.social, Borja Martinovic, @verenaseibel.bsky.social en @stefaniesprong.bsky.social: Hoeveel meer bewijs heeft de TK nodig om te erkennen dat moslimdiscriminatie een hardnekkig probleem is dat de NLse maatschappij onder druk zet?
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Hoeveel bewijs is genoeg om te erkennen dat moslimdiscriminatie een probleem is in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees
Het onlangs verschenen Nationaal Onderzoek Moslimdiscriminatie laat zien dat moslimdiscriminatie een wijdverspreid fenomeen is in Nederland. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd door Regioplan en Universitei...
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Iván Canzio @ivancanzio.bsky.social · Mar 29
If you don't speak Dutch, the automatic translation does a good job:

Politicians have questioned our colleagues' integrity and professionalism because the results do not say what they want to hear.

Acknowledging our challenges as a society is the way to improve collective well-being.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 29
Heel belangrijk stuk over moslimdiscriminatie in Nederland en ook het wegzetten van wetenschappelijk onderzoek wanneer het niet zint. Ik had deze discussie wat gemist, maar bevindingen van recente studie werden in de kamer, ten onrechte, in twijfel getrokken. stukroodvlees.nl/hoeveel-bewi...
Hoeveel bewijs is genoeg om te erkennen dat moslimdiscriminatie een probleem is in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees
Het onlangs verschenen Nationaal Onderzoek Moslimdiscriminatie laat zien dat moslimdiscriminatie een wijdverspreid fenomeen is in Nederland. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd door Regioplan en Universitei...
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 29
Heel belangrijk stuk over moslimdiscriminatie in Nederland en ook het wegzetten van wetenschappelijk onderzoek wanneer het niet zint. Ik had deze discussie wat gemist, maar bevindingen van recente studie werden in de kamer, ten onrechte, in twijfel getrokken. stukroodvlees.nl/hoeveel-bewi...
Hoeveel bewijs is genoeg om te erkennen dat moslimdiscriminatie een probleem is in Nederland? - StukRoodVlees
Het onlangs verschenen Nationaal Onderzoek Moslimdiscriminatie laat zien dat moslimdiscriminatie een wijdverspreid fenomeen is in Nederland. Het onderzoek werd uitgevoerd door Regioplan en Universitei...
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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · Feb 25
One thing is clear about the Trump Presidency.
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Massive policy uncertainty & attacks on government are already leaving skid marks on consumer confidence; growth will stall. Voters will notice, as mid-terms near.
What's not clear: does he then back down or double down?
US stocks fall as consumer confidence sinks most in four years
Oil prices drop while government bonds climb on worries Donald Trump’s tariffs will hit economy
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
Great presentation by @katymorris.bsky.social #RC28 on local opportunities - measured by growth of high paying jobs - affecting attitudes and feeling left behind, captured here by Brexit votes. Where such jobs grew heavily the probability of voting leave was 12 pp lower than where it didn't grow.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
Final session #RC28 starts with fascinating talk by Marlis Buchmann on the demand and supply of skills in Switzerland. She shows IT and social skills often go hand in hand, and some clear upgrading of occupations over time.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
I am not sure, but I think not yet.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
Very interesting work by Julian Seuring at #RC28 looking at language instruction participation among refugee children in Germany. It shows the importance of preschool participation and the community context
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
Presentation by Yuxin Liu at #RC28 on rural to urban migration in China and Nepal. She shows that left behind children are impacted both by parents or wider family migrating, but only parental migration is associated with better educational outcomes - likely because financial means are more targeted
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 27
Great start of the final day #RC28 with Elias Kruithof @brispo-vub.bsky.social presenting on intergenerational educational mobility of second generation migrants in Belgium - looking only at parental education can be misleading, as the relative education compared to context of origin matters
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Frank van Tubergen @frankvantubergen.bsky.social · Mar 26
We're hiring! Vacancies for 3 permanent research positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at NIDI (The Hague), in the field of labor market studies, inequality, and human geography/spatial studies. #Sociology #Demography #SocialSciences #Economics
nidi.nl/en/about-us/...
Vacancies - NIDI
Vacancies Are you interested in joining our interdisciplinary team of ambitious researchers studying population issues? Then we welcome you to reply to the vacancies at NIDI advertised below. 3 Resear...
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Final talk of the day by Christoph Janietz on women in the pay structure in Dutch companies, showing under representation of women at the top of the within firm pay hierarchy #RC28
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Very interesting presentation by @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social at #RC28 on the match between college majors and jobs in the US. What seems to matter most is getting into the occupation that matches degree, not as much the skills or whether you train further.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Great talk by @filippogch.bsky.social on the importance of family origin on wages in a comparative study of US, Italy, and Germany showing rather similar overall intergenerational inequality, but rather different mechanisms, #RC28
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Nice presentation by Alessio Tomelleri at #rc28 on how having higher digital skills affects hiring intention. More advanced skills may be even more relevant than educational qualifications.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Interesting work by Joshua Choper with @zparolin.bsky.social at #rc28 showing more platform work - Uber in this case - where there is more inequality as there is both more supply and demand. This is quite in line with our @etui.bsky.social work on platform work economy
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Great presentation by Lorenzo Bernabei at #RC28 on how new technologies affect employment structure in EU. They find some upgrading - more people in higher skilled and higher paying jobs - particularly when accompanied by better training and more tertiary educated workers.
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Very interesting talk by Leo Azzolini #rc28 on social origins and unemployment risks over the lifecourse. It shows clear differences between the US where inequality increases, UK where it is stable, and Germany where there is no difference. Shows importance of institutions
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Wouter Zwysen @wzwysen.bsky.social · Mar 26
Great talk on very careful study by Joey Tang #rc28 on unemployment scarring and the negative effects later on of being rejected from unemployment insurance, which leads to a higher take up of social assistance later on.
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