Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid - Herman Deleeck - Centre for Social Policy

This Thursday at 6pm Belgian time Mariana Mazzucato will give seminar that is live streamed:

The value of everything: rediscovering purpose in the economy This event is now at capacity. It will be livestreamed and recorded on the Blavatnik School YouTube channel

Nieuw CSB Bericht: De balans van minimum inkomensbescherming in Frankrijk en België

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Nieuwe CSB Working Paper beschikbaar: Methodological working paper: Using HHoT to generate institutional minimum income protection indicators

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The CSB has published a new working paper!
Marjolijn De Wilde & Sarah Marchal write about
"Weighing up work willingness in social assistance: a balancing act on multiple

Weighing up work willingness in social assistance: a balancing act on multiple levels | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck In all European countries, social assistance receipt is conditional upon the willingness to work. Yet despite the harsh consequences of losing social assistance, we know surprisingly little about how social assistance agencies and social workers implement this policy in day-to-day practice. In this....

The CSB has published a new working paper!
Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari & Gerlinde Verbist write about
"Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison"

Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck Redistribution is usually understood in terms of income; as a way to rank individuals as well as to determine taxable capacity or benefit eligibility. Yet, it is increasingly argued that more prominence should be given to the joint distribution of income and wealth and interest into the taxation of....

The CSB has published a new working paper!
Julie Vinck, Jo Lebeer & Wim Van Lancker write about "Non-take up of the supplemental child benefit for children with a disability in Belgium: a mixed-method approach"

Non-take up of the supplemental child benefit for children with a disability in Belgium: a mixed-method approach | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck Families with disabled children run a greater risk of being poor, and although policies providing poor families with financial benefits should be effective in reducing poverty, the actual effectiveness is often jeopardized by the issue of non-take up (NTU). Yet, how NTU affects the impact of benefit...

Vacature bij het CSB!

Onderzoeker voor een kwantitatief onderzoeksproject over de arbeidsmarkttrajecten van (ex-) kankerpatiënten

Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) van de Universiteit Antwerpen zoekt ENTHOUSIASTE EN BEKWAME NAVORSER (m/v) met onderzoekservaring | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) van de Universiteit Antwerpen zoekt ENTHOUSIASTE EN BEKWAME NAVORSER (m/v) met onderzoekservaring Het Centrum Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) streeft ernaar empirisch en theoretisch onderbouwde inzichten te verwerven in...

The CSB has published a new working paper!
Diego Collado write about
"Financial work incentives and the long-term unemployed: the case of Belgium"

Financial work incentives and the long-term unemployed: the case of Belgium | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck There is an abundant body of research studying the effect of financial work incentives on employment. Most studies exploit variation within groups over time or across employed and unemployed people, while little research has studied individual changes over time and focused on the long-term unemploye...

The CSB has published a new working paper!
Zachary Parolin and Christiaan Luigjes write about
"Incentive to Retrench? Institutional Moral Hazard among Federal & State Social Assistance Programs after Welfare Reform"

Incentive to Retrench? Institutional Moral Hazard among Federal & State Social Assistance Programs after Welfare Reform | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck This paper investigates whether interactions of federal- and state-administered social assistance programs in the United States provide state governments a financial incentive to cut back on cash assistance for low-income families. We test two complementary hypotheses: First, that the federally-fina...

The CSB has published a new working paper!
Sarah Marchal and Wim Van Lancker write about
"The measurement of targeting intentions in complex welfare states: a proposal and empirical applications"

The measurement of targeting intentions in complex welfare states: a proposal and empirical applications | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck The extent to which welfare states target resources to the poor and the effect this may have on redistribution and public support remains an important question in contemporary social policy and welfare state research. Usually in this line of research, targeting is measured as the extent of transfers...

Methodological innovation:

Factorial survey's (experimental survey's) to study social policy implementation at client, client manager, municipality and country level:

http://www.centrumvoorsociaalbeleid.be/sites/default/files/CSBWorkingPaper1706.pdf by Marjolijn De Wilde and Peter Goos

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Nieuw boek: Children of austerity | Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck Bij het toonaangevende Oxford University Press verscheen een nieuw boek over de impact van de financiële en economische crisis op het welzijn en armoederisico van kinderen in ontwikkelde welvaartsstaten. Het boek werd samengesteld door Bea Cantillon in samenwerking met gerenommeerde internationale e...