Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck

Het Centrum voor Sociaal Beleid Herman Deleeck (CSB) onderzoekt al meer dan 40 jaar de sociale ongelijkheid en het verdelingsvraagstuk in de welvaartsstaat.

Het CSB verricht onderzoek naar de volgende kernthema's:

Armoede en inkomensverdeling
Sociale zekerheid en fiscaliteit
Europees Sociaal Beleid
Arbeid, Gezin, Gezondheid, Migratie, Onderwijs en Vergrijzing

CSB Nieuws

CSB Working Paper 20/05: The association between the carbon footprint and the socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households

03/04/20

Understanding demand-side drivers and distribution of greenhouse gas emissions is key to design fair and efficient environmental policies. In this study, we quantify the relationship between the carbon footprint of consumption and socio-economic characteristics of Belgian households. >>

CSB Working Paper 20/04: Measuring cumulative deprivation and affluence based on the diagonal dependence diagram

23/03/20

In this paper, I introduce the diagonal dependence diagram to chart dependence around the main diagonal of a multivariate distribution. This diagonal dependence diagram is a useful tool to quantify phenomena such as cumulative deprivation and affluence. A society is said to exhibit more cumulative deprivation when more persons occupy bottom positions in all dimensions of well-being. >>

CSB Working Paper 20/03: Singling out the truly needy: the role of asset testing in European minimum income schemes

28/02/20

Means-tested transfer schemes in Europe and elsewhere tend to include not only income tests but also asset tests of various sorts. The role of asset tests in minimum income protection provisions has been extensively researched in the Anglo-Saxon context. Far fewer authors have assessed the role of asset tests on social policy in a continental European context. >>