The study "Wages in Portugal: patterns of evolution, inflation and inequalities" analyzes the evolution of the real value of wages in Portugal since the beginning of the millennium and the wage inequalities associated with gender, nationality, contractual precariousness and educational qualifications of workers in the different sectors of economic activity.

The Event “WORK PLATFORMS: Urban Mobility and Labor Rights”, which will take place on September 27th, at 2 pm, at the Palácio Galveias Library, promoted by CoLABOR in partnership with the European project PLUS – Platform Labor in Urban Spaces, has as a general theme, the socioeconomic implications that arise from the business model based on the economy of digital platforms in the urban mobility sector.

CoLABOR has work, employment and social protection at the center of its Agenda. The debate surrounding the Decent Work Agenda therefore deserves reinforced attention from this Collaborative Laboratory. Several research works have been developed that contribute to that objective (see https://colabor.pt/projetos/) and reflection texts with a more legal nature have been made available. (see at https://trabalhodigno.colabor.pt/)

On November 4th, at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CoLABOR, the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection, promoted an international meeting entitled “Work in Climate and Digital Transitions”, with the aim of contributing to reflection and qualification of the debate public about the repercussions that these changes, accelerated by the pandemic crisis and the subsequent global economic and social crisis, bring to working conditions and employment, as well as to social protection and labor regulation.

The “Skills 4 post-COVID-19 for Science and Higher Education” initiative promoted by the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection (CoLABOR), in cooperation with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, took place in the past July 3rd.

CoLABOR – Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection organized, on April 29, 2019, the international conference Work 4.0: Technology, Work and Employment in the 21st Century. The session aimed to present CoLABOR, the DataLABOR information platform and its research and intervention agenda and discuss the present and future impacts of new technologies on work and employment.