Loek Groot
Biographic Data
| ID | 249448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loek Groot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loek |
| FAMILY NAME | Groot |
| SIGNATURE | GROOT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0837-3755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances
Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patterns of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in …
Unconditional basic income and the post-labor world: On the capitalist road to communism
The thesis of a capitalist road to communism asserts that Marx's realm of freedom can be reached from within welfare capitalism, skipping socialism, by using a tax-financed unconditional basic income until it is close to disposable income per head and the very distinction between paid work and free time is cancelled as a result. We update this thesis for two reasons: the recent prospect of a post-labor world following the automation revolution in…
Welfare States’ Social Investment Strategies and the Emergence of Dutch Experiments on a Minimum Income Guarantee
The focus in welfare state support in the Netherlands has been shifted from workfare and activation policies to social investment strategies. The discourse on basic income and the related municipal experiments highlights this shift. We address the inspiration found in basic income and behavioural economic and motivational psychological theoretical insights for the design of the experiments and for new avenues of minimum income protection and prov…
Income inequality, redistribution and the position of the decisive voter
A large literature explaining patterns of redistribution makes use of the median voter theorem. Using a novel approach, this contribution shows that in OECD countries the decisive voter, determined by the earner who sees her preferred tax rate being implemented, on average sits around the 50th percentile in the income distribution, although significant within and between country differences exist. Under the assumption of a lognormal distribution …
The Most Salient Matches in the History of Premier League Football
What are the most surprising, most impressive and most exciting matches in the history of the highest division of English football? Fans, clubs, critics and broadcasters often attempt to interpret and compare the outcomes of football matches. This can be useful as a means of building a reputation for and interest in a particular club, match or competition. However, such analysis is often subjective with fan bias, personal preference and the prize…
EuropeanUnion Budget Contributions and Expenditures: A Lorenz Curve Approach
This article investigates the (in)equality of the European budget with respect to financial contributions and expenditures across Member States. Standard tools from the measurement of income inequality, including the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient, are applied to the distribution ofEuropeanUnion contributions and expenditure. In addition, the inequality in the allocation of the budget is juxtaposed against the distribution of voting power …
Competitive Balance in Team Sports: The Scoring Context, Referees, and Overtime
This paper focuses on a qualitative comparison between European football and U.S. team sports with respect to the effects of the number of goals per match, impartial errors of the referee, and overtime versus ties on the natural level of competitive balance. The more goals and the more perfect the referee, the more drastic are the measures needed to maintain competitive balance. Taking into account that the optimal level of competitive balance is…
Name Clustering on the Basis of Parental Preferences
Parents do not choose first names for their children at random. Using two large datasets, for the UK and the Netherlands, covering the names of children born in the same family over a period of two decades, this paper seeks to identify clusters of names entirely inferred from common parental naming preferences. These name groups can be considered as coherent sets of names that have a high probability to be found in the same family. Operational me…
Post-Productivism and Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis
This article provides operational measures for comparing welfare states in terms of the concept of post-productivism, as pioneered by Goodin in this Journal, and discusses the normative relevance of such comparisons. Post-productivism holds that it is desirable to grant people a high level of personal autonomy, through the welfare state's labour-market institutions and transfer system, and maintains that on average, people would choose to make us…
Referees among Most Important Players in Soccer Tournaments
T he claim I want to put forward is that the referees—and in their wake the linesmen and the fourth officials (assuming that the latter have some role to play)—are among the most important players in tournaments such as the European Championship (EC) and World Championship (WC) football, on an equal footing with the star players entering the pitch. If true, this is not as it should be. Which national team wins should be merely dependent on the pe…
Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice
How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States?
A basic income is an income granted unconditionally to all on an individual basis, without a means test or work requirement. It is a type of minimum income guarantee that differs from those that now exist in various European countries. Considered in its pure form, a basic income is paid (1) to individuals rather than households; (2) irrespective of wealth or any income from other sources; and (3) without requiring the performance of any work or t…
Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands
Introduction This is an account of the political significance of twenty years’ worth of discussions around the theme of unconditional basic income in the Netherlands. In the Introduction, the question was raised of whether basic income has ever been on the ‘political agenda’, and what the chances are of its eventual introduction. We start out by briefly summarizing our findings. Basic income entered the arena of public debate as an ethically insp…
Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances
Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patterns of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in …
Roger Caillois, Games of Chance and the Superstar
Superstars are not by accident a conspicuous phenomenon in our culture, but inherently belong to a meritocratic society with mass media, free enterprise, and competition. To make this contention plausible I will use Caillois's book, Man, Play and Games, to compare the mechanisms underlying the superstar phenomenon with a special kind of game, as set out by Caillois. As far as I know, Caillois's book is not quoted in the literature dealing with in…
The effect of unemployment, temporary withdrawals and part-time work on workers' wage rates
In this article we discuss the effects of interruptions of labour market participation and part-time work on men's and women's gross wage rates. Workers who interrupt their labour market careers suffer from depreciation of their stock of human capital. Compared to workers who do not interrupt their careers they are even more disadvantaged because every year they do not participate, they miss experience. However, if during this period for which no…
Static versus dynamic analysis of the interaction between female labour-force participation and fertility
Welfare States’ Social Investment Strategies and the Emergence of Dutch Experiments on a Minimum Income Guarantee
The focus in welfare state support in the Netherlands has been shifted from workfare and activation policies to social investment strategies. The discourse on basic income and the related municipal experiments highlights this shift. We address the inspiration found in basic income and behavioural economic and motivational psychological theoretical insights for the design of the experiments and for new avenues of minimum income protection and prov…
Static versus dynamic analysis of the interaction between female labour-force participation and fertility
EuropeanUnion Budget Contributions and Expenditures: A Lorenz Curve Approach
This article investigates the (in)equality of the European budget with respect to financial contributions and expenditures across Member States. Standard tools from the measurement of income inequality, including the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient, are applied to the distribution ofEuropeanUnion contributions and expenditure. In addition, the inequality in the allocation of the budget is juxtaposed against the distribution of voting power …
Name Clustering on the Basis of Parental Preferences
Parents do not choose first names for their children at random. Using two large datasets, for the UK and the Netherlands, covering the names of children born in the same family over a period of two decades, this paper seeks to identify clusters of names entirely inferred from common parental naming preferences. These name groups can be considered as coherent sets of names that have a high probability to be found in the same family. Operational me…
Referees among Most Important Players in Soccer Tournaments
T he claim I want to put forward is that the referees—and in their wake the linesmen and the fourth officials (assuming that the latter have some role to play)—are among the most important players in tournaments such as the European Championship (EC) and World Championship (WC) football, on an equal footing with the star players entering the pitch. If true, this is not as it should be. Which national team wins should be merely dependent on the pe…
Income inequality, redistribution and the position of the decisive voter
A large literature explaining patterns of redistribution makes use of the median voter theorem. Using a novel approach, this contribution shows that in OECD countries the decisive voter, determined by the earner who sees her preferred tax rate being implemented, on average sits around the 50th percentile in the income distribution, although significant within and between country differences exist. Under the assumption of a lognormal distribution …
Post-Productivism and Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis
This article provides operational measures for comparing welfare states in terms of the concept of post-productivism, as pioneered by Goodin in this Journal, and discusses the normative relevance of such comparisons. Post-productivism holds that it is desirable to grant people a high level of personal autonomy, through the welfare state's labour-market institutions and transfer system, and maintains that on average, people would choose to make us…
Roger Caillois, Games of Chance and the Superstar
Superstars are not by accident a conspicuous phenomenon in our culture, but inherently belong to a meritocratic society with mass media, free enterprise, and competition. To make this contention plausible I will use Caillois's book, Man, Play and Games, to compare the mechanisms underlying the superstar phenomenon with a special kind of game, as set out by Caillois. As far as I know, Caillois's book is not quoted in the literature dealing with in…
The effect of unemployment, temporary withdrawals and part-time work on workers' wage rates
In this article we discuss the effects of interruptions of labour market participation and part-time work on men's and women's gross wage rates. Workers who interrupt their labour market careers suffer from depreciation of their stock of human capital. Compared to workers who do not interrupt their careers they are even more disadvantaged because every year they do not participate, they miss experience. However, if during this period for which no…
Static versus dynamic analysis of the interaction between female labour-force participation and fertility
The effect of unemployment, temporary withdrawals and part-time work on workers' wage rates
In this article we discuss the effects of interruptions of labour market participation and part-time work on men's and women's gross wage rates. Workers who interrupt their labour market careers suffer from depreciation of their stock of human capital. Compared to workers who do not interrupt their careers they are even more disadvantaged because every year they do not participate, they miss experience. However, if during this period for which no…
How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States?
A basic income is an income granted unconditionally to all on an individual basis, without a means test or work requirement. It is a type of minimum income guarantee that differs from those that now exist in various European countries. Considered in its pure form, a basic income is paid (1) to individuals rather than households; (2) irrespective of wealth or any income from other sources; and (3) without requiring the performance of any work or t…
Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands
Introduction This is an account of the political significance of twenty years’ worth of discussions around the theme of unconditional basic income in the Netherlands. In the Introduction, the question was raised of whether basic income has ever been on the ‘political agenda’, and what the chances are of its eventual introduction. We start out by briefly summarizing our findings. Basic income entered the arena of public debate as an ethically insp…
Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances
Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patterns of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in …
Roger Caillois, Games of Chance and the Superstar
Superstars are not by accident a conspicuous phenomenon in our culture, but inherently belong to a meritocratic society with mass media, free enterprise, and competition. To make this contention plausible I will use Caillois's book, Man, Play and Games, to compare the mechanisms underlying the superstar phenomenon with a special kind of game, as set out by Caillois. As far as I know, Caillois's book is not quoted in the literature dealing with in…
Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice
Referees among Most Important Players in Soccer Tournaments
T he claim I want to put forward is that the referees—and in their wake the linesmen and the fourth officials (assuming that the latter have some role to play)—are among the most important players in tournaments such as the European Championship (EC) and World Championship (WC) football, on an equal footing with the star players entering the pitch. If true, this is not as it should be. Which national team wins should be merely dependent on the pe…
Post-Productivism and Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis
This article provides operational measures for comparing welfare states in terms of the concept of post-productivism, as pioneered by Goodin in this Journal, and discusses the normative relevance of such comparisons. Post-productivism holds that it is desirable to grant people a high level of personal autonomy, through the welfare state's labour-market institutions and transfer system, and maintains that on average, people would choose to make us…
Name Clustering on the Basis of Parental Preferences
Parents do not choose first names for their children at random. Using two large datasets, for the UK and the Netherlands, covering the names of children born in the same family over a period of two decades, this paper seeks to identify clusters of names entirely inferred from common parental naming preferences. These name groups can be considered as coherent sets of names that have a high probability to be found in the same family. Operational me…
Competitive Balance in Team Sports: The Scoring Context, Referees, and Overtime
This paper focuses on a qualitative comparison between European football and U.S. team sports with respect to the effects of the number of goals per match, impartial errors of the referee, and overtime versus ties on the natural level of competitive balance. The more goals and the more perfect the referee, the more drastic are the measures needed to maintain competitive balance. Taking into account that the optimal level of competitive balance is…
EuropeanUnion Budget Contributions and Expenditures: A Lorenz Curve Approach
This article investigates the (in)equality of the European budget with respect to financial contributions and expenditures across Member States. Standard tools from the measurement of income inequality, including the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient, are applied to the distribution ofEuropeanUnion contributions and expenditure. In addition, the inequality in the allocation of the budget is juxtaposed against the distribution of voting power …
The Most Salient Matches in the History of Premier League Football
What are the most surprising, most impressive and most exciting matches in the history of the highest division of English football? Fans, clubs, critics and broadcasters often attempt to interpret and compare the outcomes of football matches. This can be useful as a means of building a reputation for and interest in a particular club, match or competition. However, such analysis is often subjective with fan bias, personal preference and the prize…
Income inequality, redistribution and the position of the decisive voter
A large literature explaining patterns of redistribution makes use of the median voter theorem. Using a novel approach, this contribution shows that in OECD countries the decisive voter, determined by the earner who sees her preferred tax rate being implemented, on average sits around the 50th percentile in the income distribution, although significant within and between country differences exist. Under the assumption of a lognormal distribution …
Welfare States’ Social Investment Strategies and the Emergence of Dutch Experiments on a Minimum Income Guarantee
The focus in welfare state support in the Netherlands has been shifted from workfare and activation policies to social investment strategies. The discourse on basic income and the related municipal experiments highlights this shift. We address the inspiration found in basic income and behavioural economic and motivational psychological theoretical insights for the design of the experiments and for new avenues of minimum income protection and prov…
Basic Income on the Agenda: Policy Objectives and Political Chances
Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patterns of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in …
Unconditional basic income and the post-labor world: On the capitalist road to communism
The thesis of a capitalist road to communism asserts that Marx's realm of freedom can be reached from within welfare capitalism, skipping socialism, by using a tax-financed unconditional basic income until it is close to disposable income per head and the very distinction between paid work and free time is cancelled as a result. We update this thesis for two reasons: the recent prospect of a post-labor world following the automation revolution in…
Economics (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Market economy (7 works) · Basic income (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works)