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The COVID-19 pandemic brought about significant changes in people's lives and work as governments worldwide implemented strict measures to control the spread of the virus. This changed the way people lived and worked overnight and resulted in a fundamental shift in the organisation of work for many occupations. Paid work has been transformed and made more flexible in time and in space with many employees working from home for a part of their work week. For young individuals entering the labour market, these transitions could have significant consequences.
The sharp increase in hybrid work and education reduces face-to-face contact and opportunities for informal advice and bonding with fellow students, colleagues and managers, which can impact well-being, motivation, learning, and long-term career development. It also has the potential to exacerbate existing inequalities or create new ones. Furthermore, this change coincided with a substantial increase in student work in Belgium, facilitated by legislative changes that relaxed restrictions on its amount and timing. The specific modalities and consequences of student work remain understudied, however, with limited research on job quality and its contribution to students' future careers. In the current WINE-COVID project we intend to substantially increase our knowledge on these topics by studying the long term impact of COVID-19 on the work
organisation, job quality, career prospects and well-being of student workers and labour market entrants.
This will be done by gradually narrowing the research scope from a more macro-level societal to a micro-level individual perspective. Such an approach allows for a multidisciplinary and mixedmethods study design relying on qualitative and quantitative data analyses that will lead to a holistic understanding of the needs, challenges and policy opportunities for this group of (emerging) young workers. As this target group has been found to report higher psychological and physical complaints, the project aims to explore how these experiences during the
pandemic might make these (student) workers more susceptible to mental, social, and physical health issues during their transition from school to work or while balancing multiple student jobs.
The sharp increase in hybrid work and education reduces face-to-face contact and opportunities for informal advice and bonding with fellow students, colleagues and managers, which can impact well-being, motivation, learning, and long-term career development. It also has the potential to exacerbate existing inequalities or create new ones. Furthermore, this change coincided with a substantial increase in student work in Belgium, facilitated by legislative changes that relaxed restrictions on its amount and timing. The specific modalities and consequences of student work remain understudied, however, with limited research on job quality and its contribution to students' future careers. In the current WINE-COVID project we intend to substantially increase our knowledge on these topics by studying the long term impact of COVID-19 on the work
organisation, job quality, career prospects and well-being of student workers and labour market entrants.
This will be done by gradually narrowing the research scope from a more macro-level societal to a micro-level individual perspective. Such an approach allows for a multidisciplinary and mixedmethods study design relying on qualitative and quantitative data analyses that will lead to a holistic understanding of the needs, challenges and policy opportunities for this group of (emerging) young workers. As this target group has been found to report higher psychological and physical complaints, the project aims to explore how these experiences during the
pandemic might make these (student) workers more susceptible to mental, social, and physical health issues during their transition from school to work or while balancing multiple student jobs.
Acroniem | FOD162 |
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Status | Niet gestart |
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