This paper investigates how social class shapes the occurrence of social risks, defined as socio-economic circumstances associated with significant losses of income. The motivation for this exploration derives from the ‘individualisation thesis’, which calls into question the structuring...

Based on identically specified human capital earnings functions of the Mincer-type, this paper reports estimates of the rates of return to human capital for full-time working male employees in twelve countries. The results are compared across countries and over time of the decade of the eighties.

The administration of social assistance benefits is devolved to local agencies in Belgium, which raises questions about how much variation in spell lengths of benefit receipt is associated with differences across agencies. We address this issue by analysing the monthly hazard of benefit exit...