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

28/01/2019

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

This event is now at capacity. It will be livestreamed and recorded on the Blavatnik School YouTube channel

28/01/2019

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

28/01/2019

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

08/03/2018

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

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....

05/02/2018

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 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....

05/02/2018

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"

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...

25/01/2018

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 Het Centrum Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) streeft ernaar empirisch en theoretisch onderbouwde inzichten te verwerven in...

22/01/2018

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

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...

18/01/2018

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"

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...

11/01/2018

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 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...

13/04/2017

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

13/04/2017

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...