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, ●...

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...

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...

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...

*Introduction* The period since the mid-1990s has been a highly interesting one for the Netherlands and important questions can be asked about the role of wages and wage bargaining.1 First, after creating a furore in the 1990s the Dutch Miracle quickly lost its shine in the new century as...

The development of the Finnish income inequality from the midU1960s to 2010 can be distinguished into five periods. First, the era of welfare state expansion in the 1960s and the 1970s meant decreasing trend in income inequality for all income concepts (equivalised household factor income, gross...

Against the backdrop of growing income inequalities across industrialized countries, Belgium is a remarkable outlier. While breaks in series and different data sources call for a reasonable degree of caution, there is no indication that disposable household income inequalities among the Belgian...