Partners

• GINI
• AMCIS
• Equalsoc
• WageIndicator
• Centre for Global Health & Inequalities
• Solidariteit in de 21e eeuw
• WISUTIL
• LoWER
• Ducadam
• TLM.net

Growing INequalities’ Impacts (GINI)

www.gini-research.org
This project involves a cast of some 80 internationally leading experts in the different fields to be covered. The core partners organising the project are Abigail McKnight and Frank Cowell (London School of Economics / CASE), Brian Nolan (University College Dublin), Daniele Checchi (U. of Milan), István Toth (TÁRKI, Budapest), Ive Marx (U. Antwerp) and Herman van de Werfhorst at UvA/AMCIS. Wiemer Salverda at UvA/AIAS is the project coordinator. Terug naar top

Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)

www.amcis.eu
AMCIS studies inequalities in (post-) industrialized societies and particularly focuses on the impact of stratifying variables (social origin, education, gender and ethnicity) on three outcome pillars: socioeconomic attainment (concerning outcomes in the domains of education, work, and income), political behaviour and opinions, and living arrangements. The central focus is how institutions and structures mediate the impact of social origin, education, gender and ethnicity on outcomes in each of these three ‘pillars’. Terug naar top

Equalsoc

www.equalsoc.org
AIAS is an active member and supporter of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence which received support from the EU’s 6th Framework Programme in 2005. Staff of AIAS are involved in the many small-scale cooperative research projects. Herman van de Werfhorst is deputy coordinator of the network, Jelle Visser sits on its Scientific Council and coordinates the research on the Trust, Associations and Legitimacy (TRALEG) theme, and Wiemer Salverda chairs the network’s Governing Council. Terug naar top

WageIndicator

www.wageindicator.org
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The WageIndicator is an important internet-based tool that aims to share and compare wage information. This it contributes to a transparent labour market, providing free, accurate wage data through Salary Checks on many national WageIndicator websites. Wage data are collected through web surveys. Kea Tijdens, research coordinator at AIAS, is one of the two initiators and a very active member of the WageIndicator project. She is responsible for the collection and distribution of the Indicator data. Together with the Dutch Trade Union Confederation FNV and the Monster Career Network Benelux website firm, the AIAS has founded the Dutch wageindicator (Loonwijzer) Foundation. Wiemer Salverda chairs the foundation’s Supervisory Board. The Foundation is the breeding ground for the worldwide spread which makes the WageIndicator the largest non-profit collector of internationally comparative and very recent wage data. Terug naar top

Centre Global Health & Inequalities

www.cghi.nl
The CGHI is engaged in research on the global flows of health-related personnel and technologies; socio-cultural factors that constrain access to health care; user views on and experiences with health care; (inter)generational issues in health and health care; mental and chronic health and health care; reproductive and sexual health and rights; diverging logics of care; and new forms of health-related personhood.
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Solidariteit in de 21e eeuw

www.solidariteit.info
Het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Solidariteit in de 21e eeuw’ van het Amsterdams Instituut voor Arbeidsstudies (AIAS) beoogt meer inzicht te bieden in de grondslagen van solidariteit in een pluriforme samenleving. Het probeert daarmee allereerst een antwoord te geven op de vraag onder welke condities er in ons land voldoende maatschappelijke steun zal blijven voor een verzorgingsstaat die alle burgers voldoende bestaanszekerheid biedt. Maar het gaat evenzeer om de vraag welke omstandigheden bevordelijk zijn voor het in stand houden of het tot stand brengen van een zekere mate van saamhorigheid en onderlinge betrokkenheid in zowel de lokale als de nationale gemeenschap.
Het onderzoek spitst zich toe op twee vormen van solidariteit die momenteel onder druk lijken te staan, namelijk de solidariteit tussen autochtonen en allochtonen en de solidariteit tussen jongere en oudere generaties.

WISUTIL

www.epsu.org/r/561
WISUTIL is a new project that will collect a wide range of data on pay and conditions in the utilities across Europe. The project is co-ordinated by AIAS and will involve the FORBA (www.forba.at) research organisation in Vienna and the WageIndicator Foundation also in Amsterdam. The WISUTIL project aims at collecting a wide range of data on pay and conditions in the energy, water and waste utilities across Europe. Researchers involved are Maarten van Klaveren, Kea Tijdens, Melanie Hughie-Williams and Maarten Keune. Terug naar top

LoWER

www.uva-aias.net/lower
The European Low-wage Employment Research network and its related projects bring together some forty European researchers on low pay and low skills; minimum wages and employment; wage inequality and earnings mobility; intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities; gender, pay, part-time employment and skills; employment structure and quality; immigration and low pay; training and employment behaviour. It was established in 1996 and has profited from EU support from the 4th, 5th and 6th Framework programme. Wiemer Salverda is the network coordinator Terug naar top

Ducadam

Ducadam website
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TLM.net

TLM website
TLM.NET is the acronym of the Thematic Network Managing Social Risks through Transitional Labour Markets,
The core idea of the TLM.NET project was to serve as a nexus of expertise and research following the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) framework in order to provide insights into and innovative solutions to current problems facing EU labour markets. Major research on basic labour market transitions and transitions into other spheres of social life, like learning, caring, unemployment and retirement has been carried out and summarised national and comparative research with respect to all relevant labour market transitions in the life course of workers.
It was financed by the 5th framework programme of DG Research of the European Commission and jointly coordinated by the WZB (Wissenschafszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin) and SISWO/ Social Policy Research, University of Amsterdam. The project ran from December 2002 to March 2006, and comprised a network of twenty three research institutes in Europe and Canada. Terug naar top