Could an alternative system of income maintenance overcome the existing inequitable and inefficient situation, which effectively limits women's options in the labour market in The Netherlands? This question is approached by describing an alternative system of income maintenance in the form of a...

According to Schumpeter the main symptoms of the crisis in the modern tax state emanate from the prevailing tax structure rooted in the social values of the late 19th century. If we want the tax system to remain a successful instrument of public policy, we need to reform it so that it creates...

Outlines the problem of emancipation (not only of married women) as a problem of economic order, and the historical setting of family and government. Discusses economics of the family, economic order and public finance. Concludes, with special reference to The Netherlands, that incremental...

The Netherlands, Women Gives a historical perspective on the economic position of women and the participation of women in the labour market, starting with Mill and Taylor's The Subjection of Women. Reviews the current position, particularly in The Netherlands. Briefly summarises other papers...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the social question, die soziale Frage, is treated in the periodical literature of English language economics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines every reference to the question in the most important English language...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on links between former “Heilbronn Symposia” on social, economic and political changes, and evolutionary concepts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to solve the “Social Question” (“S. Qu.”) in Germany....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine uncertainty in the social discount rate and explore the conditions favouring the application of higher present value welfare weights in the cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of very long-term social projects. The plausibility, or otherwise, of these...

Assesses the NAIRU framework for analysing the determinants of equilibrium unemployment, as expressed in Layard, Nickell and Jackman's Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. It is argued that the NAIRU has produced many useful insights regarding the effects of...