Inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient of net equivalised household incomes has risen substantially (+14%) in the Netherlands. Most of the rise is concentrated in a short episode, the late 1980s, and came about in the wake of deep recession of the early 1980s. Over the 1990s and 2000s a...

Als gevolg van de economische crisis staat de uitzendbranche onder druk. Dit rapport doet verslag van een enquete onder 178 vestigingen van uitzendbureaus in heel Nederland en onderzoekt of rol van uitzendbureaus als bemiddelaar tussen werkzoekenden en werkgevers is verschoven als gevolg van de...

Dit rapport onderzoekt de voor- en nadelen van geïntegreerde dienstverlening in de keten van werk en inkomen, gebruik makend van een historische analyse. Het rapport geeft een beschrijving van alle ontwikkelingen op dit vlak in de Nederlandse geschiedenis, sinds de basis voor het sociale...

By way of introduction This report provides the fi rm foundation for anchoring the research that will be performed by the GINI project. It subsequently considers the fi elds covered by each of the main work packages: ● inequalities of income, wealth and education, ● social impacts, ●...

Working-age households where no-one is in work have become an increasing focus of policy concern even before the economic crisis, and the EU has included household joblessness in its new poverty reduction target for 2020. This paper focuses on the variation across EU countries in the prevalence...

A comparison of the costs of residential care and home care shows that the former is more expensive for society. However, elderly people seem to be happier in residential care. All stakeholders, except the state (and thus the taxpayer), benefit if elderly people enter residential care. This...

The paper looks at the link between inequality and voter turnout, and derives three hypothesis from previous literature. It is shown that inequality associates negatively with turnout at the national elections (hypothesis 1). Although this is not a very strong effect, but it is net of several...

Previous research suggests that where inequality is high, participation is low. Two arguments are generally put forward to explain this finding: First, inequality depresses participation because people have diverging statuses and therefore fewer opportunities to share common goals. Second,...

The international surveys of pupil achievement – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS – have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children’s cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on children’s reports of family or home...