Objectives

INSEAI 2023 Horizon Europe Project

The INSEAI project aims to establish an international network to strengthen research capacity and coordination on informality in Europe and Latin America. It brings together 27 organisations dedicated to studying informality, shaping related public policies, and developing tools to address it.

Activities will be organised throughout secondments and specific tools (to detect, prevent and avoid informality) will be developed. Key challenges include enhancing research impact on policy, engaging PhD students with informality, advancing training, fostering methodological exchange, and promoting gender equality.

The network adopts an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach, with the goals of:

1 Analyze the problem of informality with a global and interdisciplinarity vision in connection with employment and formalization policies, evaluating their design and implementation in the different areas of the European Union and Latin America.
2 Compile the research on the phenomenon in different fields of analysis (see the thematic areas) to conclude its characteristics, dimensions and factors of its existence and evolution.
3 Establish bases for its theoretical interpretation on the premises of an inductive discourse (arising from all the empirical literature) of an international and multidisciplinary character. The contrast between the different realities of the countries that comprise the network will offer abundant material in this regard, allowing for an examination of the hierarchies of the results obtained to date. The mesoeconomic analysis of the revised literature will also provide us with relevant clues for such purposes.
4 Observe the already analyzed differences in productivity and quality of employment in a comparative manner between Europe and Latin America.
5 Decipher how social inequalities interact with informality, accentuating social inequalities regarding material well-being.
6 Decipher the scope and role of current employment policies, the role of sectors and actors, employers, trade unions and social partners in this modulation.
7 Bring together research and intervention interests in the form of academic institutions and sectors of civil society.
8 Extend the network by opening up to the participation of other academic institutions and civil society through the open activities organized by INSEAI and developing Open Science practices with the results obtained by the joint work of the network members.
9 Generate new quantitative and qualitative tools to broaden and deepen our scientific knowledge about informality, its determinants, and ways of dealing with the phenomenon. The developed tools will identify situations of informality and the areas where there are high probabilities of their materialization. This will result in a singular advance in the knowledge of the phenomenon and, therefore, in facing it with greater efficiency than at present.
10 Deepen the relationships between the network members and extend them to other entities, particularly civil society, to establish the future of INSEAI, designing instruments that allow the establishment of said relationships after the end of the project (research, teaching, training).
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International Network for Knowledge and Comparative Socioeconomic Analysis of Informality and the Policies to be Implemented for their Formalization in the European Union and Latin America
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