Secure Mobility: Uncovering Gaps in Social Protection in Posting (SMUG)
Main funder
Funder's project number: VS/2020/0483
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 103 856,78
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/01/2021
Project end date: 31/07/2022
Summary
SMUG seeks to identify gaps and inconsistencies between national social insurance and worker protection systems in terms of coverage, rule enforcement, and access, which increase the precarity of mobile workers. These gaps make mobility more risky, by increasing the prevalence of fraud, and exacerbate inequality in the EU, resulting labour market segmented by nationality. They also result in undue burdens on national social security systems, by encouraging employers to avoid rather than comply with regulation. SMUG will take a worker-centered approach, by interviewing posted workers to find out how the interactions between national systems affect their welfare, and what their economic coping strategies. We will follow this by engagement with national regulatory actors through focus groups and workshops, to further refine our understanding of how posted workers’ economic security is affected by mobility.
Principal Investigator
Other persons related to this project (JYU)
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Related publications and other outputs
- The working underclass : highly educated migrants on the fringes of the Finnish labour market (2024) Ndomo, Quivine; G5; OA; 978-951-39-9906-3
- Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive (2023) Lillie, Nathan; B1; OA
- (In)Secure Mobility : Posted workers’ acquiescence, social insurance, and economic rationality (2022) Ndomo, Quivine; et al.; D4; OA
- Posting, short term labour migration, and social rights access : How to rework an alienating system? (2022) Lillie, Nathan; et al.; D4; OA
