ABSTRACT

What is the LAW Project?
The LAW project - Labour Market Changes and Welfare Perspectives in Europe - aims at investigating the connections between the recent structural changes of the labour market in the 'Information Society' and the welfare systems evolution.
In the first phase a comparative analysis in several countries of the European Union (France, Germany, Italy) and in a candidate (at that time) country for EU membership (Poland) focused on the new patterns of employment models, in particular the new forms of atypical work, and their impact on the welfare systems.
Based on this analysis, both the European and the national public policies concerning employment and social protection and cohesion, will be supported by the project.
The second phase of the LAW project, currently underway, is specifically oriented to the issues related to the information society. It aims to identify and analyse the impact on welfare brought about by the ICT -based new forms of work. The analysis is being performed in several countries of the EU (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Sweden, UK).