Labour market and welfare state
The sector Labour market and welfare state conducts policy-relevant medium- and long-term analyses on the functioning of the labour market and the organization of the welfare state. The emphasis is on the interaction between the labour market, on the one hand, and arrangements in the field of pensions, social security, taxation and leave systems, on the other. These analyses make intensive use of the general-equilibrium models MIMIC and GAMMA. Developments of labour supply and pension premiums are monitored, analysed and projected, also for the short term.The analyses of the sector are aimed at gaining insight into the welfare costs and benefits of the design of the welfare state and the institutions on the labour market. Given the ageing of society, increasing labour participation is an important economic target for the years ahead. The sector wants to address this problem by analysing labour supply behaviour over the course of life in relation to alternative systems of social security, taxation, pensions and health- and leave schemes.
Most of the research on pensions and the macroeconomy is carried out as part of the NETSPAR-theme The Macroeconomics of Pension Reforms.
Subjects
- Labour supply and participation
- Labour market policies
- Employment and unemployment
- Social security and welfare state
- Pensions
- Ageing
Projects
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