Research project Laborocto

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.