Research project Laborocto
Laborocto is a network collaboration between eight Forte-funded programs on work-life research. The network is aimed at long-run promotion of work-life research. Around 100 researchers at all career stages from more than 10 disciplines take part in the network.
Laborocto is a network collaboration between eight Forte-funded programs on work-life research:
- ALL-INCLUSIVE? Cohesion and exclusion in work-life change
- Labor market inclusion in theory and practice
- Work-related adverse social behaviors – psychosocial and organizational determinants and health risks
- Employment contracts, job insecurity, unionization, working conditions, work attitudes and health
- Effects of non-standard work arrangements on health, work and families in Sweden
- Structural change: consequences and policy responses
- Swedish Labour Mobility Lab: Structural change and mobility frictions on regional labour markets
- Understanding and advancing labor market integration in transitional times.
The network is aimed at long-run promotion of work-life research. Insights gained through organized cross-disciplinary exchange will contribute to increasing research quality.
Around 100 researchers at all career stages from more than 10 disciplines take part in the network, with a close to even gender balance.
A consistent set of topics binds the programs together:
- Defining and measuring the structure of labor markets and working life
- Assessing structural change; its content, causes and macro-level consequences
- Identifying worker groups affected by structural change
- Identifying consequences these groups experience
- Identifying mechanisms by which these groups experience these consequences
- Identifying and assessing ways to modify consequences of structural change
- Identifying wider implications for society of structural change and its consequences
The network’s planned activities are of two main kinds:
- General seminars facilitate research information and discussion between programs;
- Junior researchers organize separate seminars and other activities;
- Additional activities will emerge organically, as the network develops.
Via improved knowledge formation, the network brings benefits beyond the research community. Increased interaction with social partners is expected to follow.