Het integratiebeleid heeft niet volledig aan de verwachtingen voldaan, vindt premier Leterme. Hij sluit zich daarmee gedeeltelijk aan bij de opmerkingen die de Duitse kanselier Angela Merkel gaf over het 'mislukken van de multiculturele samenleving'. Lees het volledige artikel in De Standaard hier.
dinsdag 2 november 2010
Efficiëntie en effectiviteit van de publieke sector in de weegschaal
Lees het volledige rapport van de Vlaamse overheid hier.
France's pension reform: After the protests
As the dust settles, what have the French learned about themselves?
FRANCE has begun to clamber back to its feet after weeks of strikes, demonstrations, blockades, petrol shortages and sporadic violence. Despite delays, this week both houses of parliament voted to raise the legal minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 years; this should become law by mid-November. Oil refineries began to reopen and oil depots were forcibly unblocked on government orders. Rotting rubbish was cleared from the streets in Marseille. Although a further day of strikes was called for October 28th, unions are divided over whether to push their case further. And with schoolchildren on half-term holiday, university students seemed too half-hearted to keep the protests going.
As the French digest the turmoil of recent weeks, and businesses count the cost, what lessons might be drawn about the nature of protest and reform in France? One is that, even though union leaders are still able to draw huge numbers of protesters on to the streets, the disruptive power of strikes is not what it was. This is because the law now guarantees minimum service on public transport and in schools on strike days, and workers who down tools are no longer paid. The strikes have not prevented people getting to work altogether, nor paralysed the country. ...
Read the complete article in The Economist here.
Vrind 2010
De resultaten van het Vlaamse beleid en de impact op de omgeving.
Lees dit rapport van de Studiedienst van de Vlaamse Regering hier.
The unequal benefits of family activation: an analysis of the social distribution of family policy among families with young children
In the last decades, measures to reconcile work and family life arose in response to new societal needs stemming from the generalization of dual earnership. However, dual earnership has not been adopted evenly across various social groups in European societies. Consequently, concerns about the distribution of the benefit of those policies arise: does this new orientation entail a loss of redistributive power of the welfare state? We address this question by focussing on the interaction of three types of family measures and their overall distributional effect in Europe with the Belgian region of Flanders as case in point. We develop a fine-grained analysis to reveal the budgetary impact of the variation in use and generosity, and find that the redistributive effect of child benefits is largely undone by subsidized childcare and parental leave benefits. As such, our analysis supports concern about a reduction of the redistributive character of the „new‟ welfare state.
Lees het CSB rapport hier.
Microscopic Microeconomics
In the last decade or so, the American economy has been undone by a series of bubbles. First there was the dot-com boom, in which start-ups without business models were suddenly worth billions of dollars. Then after a brief recession, we began speculating about real estate, so that Las Vegas tract homes tripled in value before they even had roofs. The latest suspect for a bubble is gold, which has doubled in price over the past three years.
Read this article in The New York Times here.
Immigration and productive tasks: Can immigrant workers benefit native workers?
Several studies find that immigrants do not harm the wages and job prospects of native workers. This column seeks to explain these somewhat counterintuitive findings by emphasizing the scope for complementarities between foreign-born and native workers. Examining 14 European countries from 1996 to 2007, it finds that immigrants often supply manual skills, leaving native workers to take up jobs that require more complex skills – even boosting demand for them. Immigrants replace “tasks”, not workers.
Read this article on VoxEU here.
Pour les employeurs, les salariés ont trop de congés
Les employeurs estiment que les salariés ont trop de congés thématiques. L’allongement du congé de maternité voté par le parlement européen est la goutte de trop.
Lisez l'article dans Le Soir ici.
Les maisons médicales en plein boom
Le budget consacré aux maisons médicales a été multiplié par 8 en 12 ans.
Lisez l'article dans LLB ici.
Comment et pourquoi dépenser 222 millions de moins
“Il est essentiel que nos entités fassent mieux que leurs engagements.” (Rudy Demotte)
Lisez l'article dans LLB ici.
Les entreprises craignent des "salaires régionaux"
Les dirigeants d'entreprises craignent des "conséquences inconsidérées" sur les salaires et le travail - d'une fiscalité régionale différente sur les salaires jusqu'aux calculs différenciés des allocations familiales - et davantage de difficultés administratives.
Lisez l'article dans LLB ici.
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