David Bokhorst
@davidbokhorst.bsky.social
Policy advisor & academic - Political Scientist
Fascinating article. Basic income experiments do not yield the predicted positive results, this Dutch newspaper article sums up the evidence and only in poorer countries do you see significant differences vis-a-vis the control group.
Al jaren pleiten denkers en politici voor een basisinkomen. Experimenten tonen echter aan dat het geven van gratis geld niet leidt tot minder armoede, een betere gezondheid of meer arbeidsgeluk.
Het basisinkomen blijkt níét de manier om mensen uit de armoede te trekken
Sociaal-economische onderzoeken: Al jaren pleiten denkers en politici voor een basisinkomen. Experimenten tonen echter aan dat het geven van gratis geld niet leidt tot minder armoede, een betere…
buff.ly
September 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Fascinating article. Basic income experiments do not yield the predicted positive results, this Dutch newspaper article sums up the evidence and only in poorer countries do you see significant differences vis-a-vis the control group.
Reposted by David Bokhorst
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report.
Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone.
“The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone.
“The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Pushed Out A 'Stunning' Number Of Federal Workers — And Now We Know Exactly How Many
“We’re seeing the arson of our government,” warned Max Stier of Partnership for Public Service, which has been tracking people's lost jobs since January.
www.huffpost.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report.
Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone.
“The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone.
“The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Job alert!
Postdoc position available in my project on EU economic governance — with a focus on fiscally conservative member states.
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3536...
Postdoc position available in my project on EU economic governance — with a focus on fiscally conservative member states.
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3536...
postdoc EU economic governance
Join our research on EU economic governance. Unravel the political dynamics shaping reform capacities with a focus on fiscally conservative member states .
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July 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Job alert!
Postdoc position available in my project on EU economic governance — with a focus on fiscally conservative member states.
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3536...
Postdoc position available in my project on EU economic governance — with a focus on fiscally conservative member states.
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3536...
Ik sprak met NRC over hoe we aan moeten kijken tegen succes en falen van het Corona Herstelfonds van de EU, het resulteerde in deze gebalanceerde analyse: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
De belofte van 650 miljard: heeft het coronaherstelfonds Europa echt geholpen?
Coronaherstelfonds: Vijf jaar geleden werd in een marathonvergadering in Brussel besloten honderden miljarden euro’s te steken in het opbouwen van de Europese economie met een nieuw fonds, het Coronah...
www.nrc.nl
July 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Ik sprak met NRC over hoe we aan moeten kijken tegen succes en falen van het Corona Herstelfonds van de EU, het resulteerde in deze gebalanceerde analyse: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Europese Commissie had een grote kans om tot daadwerkelijke hervorming te komen van MFK, maar lijkt toch weer voor het oude recept te kiezen.
Faced with a €30 billion-a-year repayment bill from Covid-era borrowing, the European Commission briefly considered the unthinkable — tapping into the EU’s most sacred cow, farm subsidies.
Brussels backs off from big farm shake-up. Cuts are coming anyway.
The European Commission tried to gut the EU farm budget. Farmers, ministers and lobbyists fought back and won. But with funds shrinking, the pain is only delayed.
ow.ly
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Europese Commissie had een grote kans om tot daadwerkelijke hervorming te komen van MFK, maar lijkt toch weer voor het oude recept te kiezen.
New paper out in Journal of Social Policy - Looking at the rising role of cities in the social investment welfare state. As new challenges - like shortages - loom, cities are innovating to find practical answers, setting new policy norms along the way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
Cities as social investment frontrunners: the case of Amsterdam as innovator and welfare stopgap
www.cambridge.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
New paper out in Journal of Social Policy - Looking at the rising role of cities in the social investment welfare state. As new challenges - like shortages - loom, cities are innovating to find practical answers, setting new policy norms along the way: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Kabinet waarschuwt opnieuw de Kamer vandaag dat als belangrijke wetstrajecten rondom de arbeidsmarkt (Vbar en wet BAZ) controversieel worden verklaard, Nederland kan worden gekort op het Europees Herstelfonds (600 mln per gemiste mijlpaal).
June 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Kabinet waarschuwt opnieuw de Kamer vandaag dat als belangrijke wetstrajecten rondom de arbeidsmarkt (Vbar en wet BAZ) controversieel worden verklaard, Nederland kan worden gekort op het Europees Herstelfonds (600 mln per gemiste mijlpaal).
Reposted by David Bokhorst
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the next EU budget: "Last time, we had a leading role in the Frugal Four. Next time, we will have a leading role in another group."
"We will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us."
"We will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us."
June 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on the next EU budget: "Last time, we had a leading role in the Frugal Four. Next time, we will have a leading role in another group."
"We will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us."
"We will be tough, but being a part of the Frugal Four is no longer the right place for us."
De visie vanuit Zuid Europa, met knipoog naar de EW cover van aantal jaar geleden over de harde werkende Noordeling en het luie Zuiden.
June 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
De visie vanuit Zuid Europa, met knipoog naar de EW cover van aantal jaar geleden over de harde werkende Noordeling en het luie Zuiden.
Reposted by David Bokhorst
A new bill rapidly making its way through the US Senate threatens to devastate Russia. But also parts of the European Union economy.
I break down the Graham-Blumenthal bill.
I break down the Graham-Blumenthal bill.
New US Senate bill could wreck Russia, but damage EU economy
In a bid to isolate Moscow, a new bill in the US Senate threatens to impose 500% tariffs on any country that buys Russian fossil fuels. If implemented as intended, the plan could ravage several EU countries. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A new bill rapidly making its way through the US Senate threatens to devastate Russia. But also parts of the European Union economy.
I break down the Graham-Blumenthal bill.
I break down the Graham-Blumenthal bill.
Column van @sanderschimmelp.bsky.social dit keer op basis van het ESB stuk van mij en Anton Hemerijck, cool om te lezen. esb.nu/nederland-zo...
May 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Column van @sanderschimmelp.bsky.social dit keer op basis van het ESB stuk van mij en Anton Hemerijck, cool om te lezen. esb.nu/nederland-zo...
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May 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
ECA seems to have just put a bomb under the future of the performance-based model of the RRF with their latest report, and Dutch media is loving it. "RRF is 'completely absurd' " www.ewmagazine.nl/buitenland/n...
Europese Rekenkamer: coronaherstelfonds ‘compleet absurd’
De Europese Rekenkamer onderzocht de effecten. En ja hoor: niet te meten. Een slechtere reclame voor nieuwe eurobonds is er niet. ✓ Lees meer.
www.ewmagazine.nl
May 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
ECA seems to have just put a bomb under the future of the performance-based model of the RRF with their latest report, and Dutch media is loving it. "RRF is 'completely absurd' " www.ewmagazine.nl/buitenland/n...
indications that China is considering to rebalance its growth model
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A translation (by Fred Gao) of a very interesting recent speech by Liu Shijin, a former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council. Liu begins by acknowledging how astonishingly low China's consumption share of GDP is.
www.fredgao.com/p/liu-shijin...
A translation (by Fred Gao) of a very interesting recent speech by Liu Shijin, a former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council. Liu begins by acknowledging how astonishingly low China's consumption share of GDP is.
www.fredgao.com/p/liu-shijin...
Liu Shijin's Advice on Reforming Rural Pension System
Former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council Calls for Tripling Rural Pensions in Three Years
www.fredgao.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
indications that China is considering to rebalance its growth model
Sunshine, birds and flowers everywhere, today is my last working day @eui-eu.bsky.social Badia Fiesolana, one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe. I will miss this place.
April 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Sunshine, birds and flowers everywhere, today is my last working day @eui-eu.bsky.social Badia Fiesolana, one of the most beautiful campuses in Europe. I will miss this place.
Well written! The Economists love letter to 'the European model'
Things are so bad in America that Charlemagne has written a love letter to Europe. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now
Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison
www.economist.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Well written! The Economists love letter to 'the European model'
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Greek 10-year bond yield is lower than US, UK and Australia.
What about them fetas?
What about them fetas?
April 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Greek 10-year bond yield is lower than US, UK and Australia.
What about them fetas?
What about them fetas?
This piece from Politico from a couple of weeks ago is really good - on why Europe does not want to import agricultural products from the USA (for good reason): www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump wants Europe to buy more US farm goods. It can’t.
There are insuperable market, phytosanitary and political obstacles — and it could get worse.
www.politico.eu
April 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This piece from Politico from a couple of weeks ago is really good - on why Europe does not want to import agricultural products from the USA (for good reason): www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Learned recently that the European Commission has its own internal AI tool, based on thousands of EC documents and implementation documents of reforms and investments at MS level. New research papers that will come out should be very interesting.
April 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Learned recently that the European Commission has its own internal AI tool, based on thousands of EC documents and implementation documents of reforms and investments at MS level. New research papers that will come out should be very interesting.
EU researchers pay attention. As just announced in our @eui-eu.bsky.social conference on the Recovery and Resilience Facility: there will soon be a call for papers for a major evaluation conference at the European Commission in early 2026 on the effects of the RRF.
April 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
EU researchers pay attention. As just announced in our @eui-eu.bsky.social conference on the Recovery and Resilience Facility: there will soon be a call for papers for a major evaluation conference at the European Commission in early 2026 on the effects of the RRF.
mooi stuk over Griekenland. Klein misverstand, maar niet onbelangrijk, de crisis in 2009 begon niet bij de aankondiging van een veel groter begrotingstekort (markten bleven toen redelijk kalm), maar pas enkele weken later toen vanuit Noord Europa het signaal kwam dat Griekenland er alleen voor stond
Met de overheidsfinanciën gaat het stukken beter. Maar de economie is nog lang niet terug op het niveau van voor de crisis.
Met de overheidsfinanciën gaat het stukken beter. Maar de economie is nog lang niet terug op het niveau van voor de crisis.
Met de overheidsfinanciën gaat het stukken beter. Maar de economie is nog lang niet terug op het niveau van voor de crisis.
www.nrc.nl
March 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
mooi stuk over Griekenland. Klein misverstand, maar niet onbelangrijk, de crisis in 2009 begon niet bij de aankondiging van een veel groter begrotingstekort (markten bleven toen redelijk kalm), maar pas enkele weken later toen vanuit Noord Europa het signaal kwam dat Griekenland er alleen voor stond
Reposted by David Bokhorst
Hei newspapers,
If you title anything other than 'Trump ceasefire bid fails as Putin rejects ceasefire" you are part of the problem.
If you title anything other than 'Trump ceasefire bid fails as Putin rejects ceasefire" you are part of the problem.
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hei newspapers,
If you title anything other than 'Trump ceasefire bid fails as Putin rejects ceasefire" you are part of the problem.
If you title anything other than 'Trump ceasefire bid fails as Putin rejects ceasefire" you are part of the problem.
Slim, zouden NL universiteiten ook moeten doen. Ipv snijden in de uitgaven vanwege de bezuinigingen. www.brusselstimes.com/1490737/brus...
Brussels university VUB opens doors to 'censored' American researchers
"US universities and their scholars are the biggest victims of this political and ideological interference. They are seeing millions in research funding disappear for ideological reasons."
www.brusselstimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Slim, zouden NL universiteiten ook moeten doen. Ipv snijden in de uitgaven vanwege de bezuinigingen. www.brusselstimes.com/1490737/brus...
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Nieuw stukje op ESB.
Ik laat zien dat de positie van de Tweede Kamer kansloos is. Het is onvermijdelijk dat enkele lidstaten geld moeten lenen om te kunnen investeren in defensie.
esb.nu/zonder-eurob...
Ik laat zien dat de positie van de Tweede Kamer kansloos is. Het is onvermijdelijk dat enkele lidstaten geld moeten lenen om te kunnen investeren in defensie.
esb.nu/zonder-eurob...
Zonder Eurobonds of soepelere begrotingsregels moet Nederland zelf veel meer uitgeven - ESB
De Tweede Kamer keerde zich gisteren tegen Eurobonds. Soepelere Europese begrotingsregels willen de parlementariërs ook niet. Dat is een onhoudbare positie als ze wel wil dat andere landen meer uitgev...
esb.nu
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nieuw stukje op ESB.
Ik laat zien dat de positie van de Tweede Kamer kansloos is. Het is onvermijdelijk dat enkele lidstaten geld moeten lenen om te kunnen investeren in defensie.
esb.nu/zonder-eurob...
Ik laat zien dat de positie van de Tweede Kamer kansloos is. Het is onvermijdelijk dat enkele lidstaten geld moeten lenen om te kunnen investeren in defensie.
esb.nu/zonder-eurob...
Kamer is bang dat Europese defensiebonds leiden tot nieuwe schuldencrisis. Het vorige EU instrument (waar deze op gebaseerd is) leverde EU lidstaten een besparing van 9 miljard op, hielp ook schulden onder controle te houden die nu in meeste landen alweer onder het niveau van de COVID schok staan.
March 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Kamer is bang dat Europese defensiebonds leiden tot nieuwe schuldencrisis. Het vorige EU instrument (waar deze op gebaseerd is) leverde EU lidstaten een besparing van 9 miljard op, hielp ook schulden onder controle te houden die nu in meeste landen alweer onder het niveau van de COVID schok staan.