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Projected population, inequality and social expenditures: the case of Flanders KU Leuven
We investigate the budgetary and distributional efffects of a demographic and economic evolution in Flanders between 2011 and 2031. We project demographic changes by means of two multi-state population projections (LiPro-projections), on the basis of which we statically reweigh the EU-SILC 2008 dataset. In addition, we assume a modest real exogenous -meaning not induced by the demographic projections- growth rate of 1%. Population-wise, we find ...
The Rise of the Fiscal State? Urban Finances, Politics and Social Inequality in Sixteenth-Century ’s-Hertogenbosch Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A regional comparison of social inequality & economic development in 16th-century Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Get rich and try dyeing : cloth production and social inequality in town and countryside (sixteenth century) Ghent University
Pilot project on social inequality and the environment Departement of spatial development, environment, energy, climate, green economy, animal welfare
Information campaigns on the environment and health often do not reach socially vulnerable groups, while these groups are disproportionately affected by environmental health risks. In a pilot project, the University of Antwerp and VIGeZ investigated how existing information and awareness-raising about these risks could be made more accessible and could have more impact on disadvantaged groups. The pilot project ran within the ...
Law and social inequality : a plea for legal guerilla Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wat kan “het recht” doen aan de “sociale ongelijkheid”? Of houdt het eerste de tweede in stand? Wat een kanjers van vragen. Het antwoord kan immers om het even waar liggen op de as tussen “alles” en “helemaal niets” afhankelijk van wat je allemaal in die enorme containers stopt of niet. Mijn punt is dus dat er iets grondig mis is met de vraag als dusdanig. Mijn eerste reactie was dan ook om niet te participeren aan het begrafenisnummer van ...