Today, 11 December 2017, an article has been published in the magazine Trends / MoneyTalk on the basis of an interview with Frank Vandenbroucke about the retirement age.
You can find the link to the article here:
http://moneytalk.knack.be/geld-en-beurs/pensioen/frank-vandenbroucke-over-de-pensioenen-onze-politieke-cultuur-maakt-grondig-hervormen-onmogelijk/article-normal-937251.html
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2017-12-2017_Guest_lecture_Abraham_Vandenbroucke_Leuven
The social dimension of European economic and monetary integration Puzzles paradoxes perspectives Frank Vandenbroucke Guest lecture in: Economics Integration – Prof Abraham 20 December 2017 the project according to founding fathers: a belief in convergence • would support simultaneous pursuit progress cohesion both within countries (through gradual development welfare states) between upward across Union) Initial division labour: development: supranational policy coordination security rights & anti-discrimination: national sovereignty (in theory) machine worked… more or less… until 2004/2008 US 1 4 EU27 3 2 0 9 8 7 6 5 Median income states (US ‘representative state’ = 1) EU Member States (EU MS’ Romania Denmark Top quintile 32% 133% 30% 140% 28% 145% 23% 152% A tragic dilemma enlarged heterogeneous EU)? Minimum wages what governments can do: net disposable couple with children one minimum-wage earner 45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 LU IE AT FI UK DE FR NL DK BE IT SI EL CZ ES SK EE PL HU LT PT LV RO BG Net Gross wage Source: CSB/MIPI 2004-06 2012 60 50 40 30 10 Very high work intensity High Medium Low low Work household Bron: Eurostat SILC 2005-2007; 2013 Reconciling openness domestic Access benefits: general principle non- discrimination exception: posting workers Transparency coverage minimum regimes Division Design flaws De Grauwe Flexibility determines order Institutional advantage coordinated bargaining Macro-economic stabilisation: smoothing shocks: vs EMU 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 20% 10% US: – federal tax-and-benefit system state-based unemployment insurance framework extensions Saving taxes transfers Factor capital depreciation Total smoothed 0% -10% 1979-1998 1999-2010 Furceri Zdzienicka Euro Area Crisis… IMF Working Paper Why are stabilization instruments centralized unions? Risk sharing (pooling) Externalities public good (vaccination) Vaccination: compulsory (minimum requirements) subsidized (re-insurance) requirements for an effective stabilisation capacity: sufficiently generous benefits notably short-term; sufficient rates benefit schemes; no labour market segmentation that leaves part force poorly insured; proliferation employment relations not integrated into insurance; activation unemployed individuals; budgetary buffers times so automatic stabilisers do their bad These principles become fortiori imperative if Eurozone be equipped re-insurance systems: institutional moral hazard shared conception flexibility Labour institutions deliver on (effective collective bargaining) Cluster adequate capacity MS: insured against unemployment; systems individuals Convergence some key features Pillar Social Rights Gothenburg Summit 17 November Union systemic level functions (e g fair corporate taxation …) guide substantive via standards objectives leaving ways means basis operational definition ‘the model’ cooperate union explicit purpose pursuing pan-European based reciprocity Zdziencicka Crisis: Need Supranational Fiscal Sharing Mechanism ? 13/198 Reduction Moral Hazard: Vaccination Metaphor Intereconomics Vol 52 May/June Number pp 154-159 From Europe 27 https://www socialeurope eu/gothenburg-social-summit-european-social-union Barnard Baere (eds ) after Crisis Cambridge: Cambridge University Press September https://doi org/10 1017/9781108235174 Introductory chapter Open www frankvandenbroucke uva nl item 263 Structural versus competition: limits diversity policies Economic Monetary ECFIN discussion paper 065 Commission Directorate-General Financial Affairs Brussels July http://ssrn com/abstract=3008621 All publications:
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2017.12.19_Presentatie_Rechtvaardigheid_HOGent
Rechtvaardigheid in sociaal beleid Frank Vandenbroucke HOGent 19 december 2017 • Rawls: ongelijkheid inkomen en vermogen is niet per se onrechtvaardig maar ze moet uitgelegd (gerechtvaardigd) kunnen worden Rawls’s ‘verschilprincipe’ (maximin): ‘Zorg ervoor dat de maatschappelijke positie van minst bevoordeelde groep zo goed mogelijk is’ – wie ‘de groep’? wat betekent ‘zo mogelijk’? Laag Hoog Alternatief A 5 B 10 15 C 9 25 D 11 E 4 33 Ongelijkheid als mensen benadeeld (t o v anderen) door eigenschappen of omstandigheden waarvoor zelf verantwoordelijk zijn Voorbeeld: verdeling erfenis Als het gevolg ‘eigen verantwoordelijkheid’ dan Laaggeschoolden ‘minst groep’: opleiding armoederisico bevolking 18 tot 64 jaar 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% BE-L DE-L FR-L NL-L BE-M DE-M FR-M NL-M BE-H DE-H FR-H NL-H Laaggeschoold Middelgeschoold Hooggeschoold 16% Huishoudens met zeer lage werkintensiteit 14% 12% EU BE 8% DE 6% FR 4% NL 2% Bron: SILC 2015 BE: (1) grote + (2) hoog risico op armoede Wie deze hun kansen? Beleidslijnen sinds 2003-2004 Structurele lastenvermindering voor werkgevers Kortingen bij tewerkstelling doelgroepen Dienstencheques Sociale economie Activering financiële prikkels (positief negatief…) begeleiding opvolging eventuele sancties Welke integratie? De klemtoon verantwoordelijkheid: kritieken grenzen valkuilen Kritiek: maken wel echt ‘vrije keuzes’? Grens: noodzaak mededogen Opgelet: algemene nut verzekeringen (‘externe effecten’) ouders kinderen gelijke kansen verantwoordelijkheid alleen zwak staat ook sterk groep’ Opleiding Een stille revolutie: groeiend aandeel bijstand onze sociale bescherming door… Migratie werkloosheid laaggeschoolden Individualisering Verbreding toegang bestaansminimum/leefloon Studiefinanciering Werkloosheidsreglementering Problemen Non-take up Hoogte uitkeringen Duurzame uitstroom Bijstand wederkerigheid integratie rijke opvatting over activering nodig Verantwoordelijkheid: Samenleving Politiek jg 24 september pp 83-89 beleid: Belgische Case Christen-democratische reflecties nr 1 maart 2016 Wilde Cantillon Bie 40 OCMW Leuven; Acco Publicaties: www frankvandenbroucke uva nl
Interview met Frank Vandenbroucke in de Vlaamse krant Gazet van Antwerpen: Hoe gaat het nog met België? Ex-politicus Frank Vandenbroucke komt tot enkele opmerkelijke conclusies
Vandaag, 11 december 2017 verscheen een artikel in het tijdschrift Trends/MoneyTalk aan de hand van een interview met Frank Vandenbroucke over de pensioenleeftijd.
U vindt de link hier:
http://moneytalk.knack.be/geld-en-beurs/pensioen/frank-vandenbroucke-over-de-pensioenen-onze-politieke-cultuur-maakt-grondig-hervormen-onmogelijk/article-normal-937251.html
From the Gothenburg Social Summit to a European Union Frank Vandenbroucke published at Europe 27 November 2017 Accessible https://www socialeurope eu/gothenburg-social-summit-european-social-union On 17 Parliament Council and Commission proclaimed Pillar of Rights in The launch signals cautious but steady paradigm shift away from austerity least level But will it lead tangible results? In essence this is fresh attempt answer challenges created by monetary integration upshot new thinking that unification imposes degree convergence key features Member States’ social employment policies Admittedly idea there policy corollary not Already 1990s reform labour markets was justified advent union; emphasis put on supply-side flexibility immediate aftermath financial crisis drive for market gained momentum EU’s discourse under heading ‘structural reform’; one element call States decentralize their systems collective bargaining which can be seen as yet another instance need Now adds ‘stability’ desideratum ‘flexibility’: stability both terms avoidance large economic shocks stable development wage share national income This an important step forwards intellectually basic insight has prominence Commission’s nearly all existing unions are true ‘insurance unions’ They only centralize risk management with regard banks they also unemployment insurance EMU exception gradually developing driven mutual notably its progress towards Banking Next argues needs fiscal stabilisers; achieve options would re-insurance benefit schemes Eurozone reference happenstance Monetary either opt downright centralisation (like Canada or Germany) demand some organisation provide reinsurance when really high US combines decentralisation insurance) concern Eurozone’s entails cluster principles sustain effective stabilisation capacity each State: sufficiently generous benefits short-term; sufficient coverage rates schemes; no segmentation leaves part force poorly insured against unemployment; proliferation relations integrated into insurance; activation unemployed individuals prominently become fortiori imperative quid pro quo if were equipped systems; even without perspective such ‘stability-related’ should figure agenda Well- functioning create ‘externality’: country properly insures itself helps neighbours members institutions deliver coordination: totally decentralised uncoordinated institutional liability rather than asset matter common re-emerging one-sided insistence decentralization dominated number years abandoned short implies well-functioning consensus support types beneficial Flexibility associated ‘enabling’ policies: equipping people adequate skills empower them thus recreate individual security To action: devices Stability requires instruments typically protect vulnerable individuals: stabilises economy because protects purchasing power Enabling protective mutually reinforcing creating resilient relevant welfare states whole EU communication ambitious: said about “delivering more rights citizens” President Jean-Claude Juncker called agreement “to avoid fragmentation dumping” So conceived year may indeed turning point However questions pending ideational delivery Although work interpreted signaling public debate remains handicapped absence clear analytical nature i e state supports facilitates flourishing We clarity role At very moment accepted governments actors entertain contradictory discourses what exact endeavor Some say ‘monitoring results’ implement Pillar; others conversion binding legislation emphasize implementing responsibility; underscore confusion worrying proclamation creates huge political risk: although formally justiciable ‘rights’ language speaks citizens If does promise enshrined initiative backfire frustration Hence develop credible roadmap Delivery presupposes different combined Pillar’s principles: aspects coordination benchmarking other funding play Semester macro-economic surveillance A selection priorities: shortlist priority actions fully implemented much better long wish-list half-heartedly author range colleagues explore concept book after Crisis Cambridge University Press
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2017-11-30_Presentation_Vandenbroucke_Budapest
From the Gothenburg Summit to a Social Union… we need both clear thinking and hands-on delivery Frank Vandenbroucke Millennium Institute conference 30th November 2017 Budapest 30 • The functional necessities of EMU: – EES: supply-side flexibility New insight: labour market institutions that support stability Cluster policy principles for an effective stabilisation capacity in MS: sufficiently generous unemployment benefits notably short-term; sufficient coverage rates benefit schemes; no segmentation leaves part force poorly insured against unemployment; proliferation employment relations are not integrated into systems social insurance; activation unemployed individuals Labour can deliver on wage coordination: monitor competitiveness should be embedded dialogue distributive concerns mainstreamed monitoring => Convergence some key features Eurozone welfare states Traditional view: European aspiration: simultaneous pursuit economic progress cohesion within countries (development states) between (upward convergence across EU) integration human capital through investment policies EU stimulate MS develop ‘dual use ’ packages pursue upward internal Upward quality is condition long-term Reducing background inequalities families with children investing child care education contribute national EU-wide “Rising income inequality has significant impact growth large because it reduces poorer segments poorest 40% population precise invest their skills ” (OECD In Together … 2015) Overlapping priorities resilient EMU collective bargaining transparency predictability minimum wages ECEC better protection perspectives households weak attachment markets (minimum / incentives low-skilled labour…) Clear Credible roadmap combining… legislation Policy coordination benchmarking Funding instruments (tangible MS) Mainstreaming fiscal surveillance Semester Union Europe 27 https://www socialeurope eu/gothenburg-social-summit-european-social- union Barnard De Baere (eds ) A after Crisis Cambridge: Cambridge University Press September https://doi org/10 1017/9781108235174 Structural versus competition: limits diversity Economic Monetary ECFIN discussion paper 065 Commission Directorate-General Financial Affairs Brussels 20 July http://ssrn com/abstract=3008621 All publications: www frankvandenbroucke uva nl
Interview with Frank Vandenbroucke in Dutch-language Belgian weekly magazine Humo on the occasion of the thirty-fourth Pacificatielezing, which was held in Breda, The Netherlands on 11 November 2017.
Read the interview here:
http://www.humo.be/humo-archief/384753/humo-sprak-met-frank-vandenbroucke-ik-ben-ook-bang-voor-het-klimaat-en-de-gek-die-trump-is-maar-onze-welvaart-hebben-we-zelf-in-handen