Determinanten van de consumptieve vraag in Nederland, 1815-1913.
J.P.M. Bonenkamp, J.P.A.M. Jacobs en J.P. Smits
Determinants of consumption demand in the Netherlands 1815-1913
This article investigates consumption demand in the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. First it is formally established whether sub periods can be discerned in the development of consumption. Then dynamic consumption models are estimated that distinguish both long-term and short-run behaviour. The article concludes that the derived classification of sub periods in consumption is more or less in line with existing views. However, the relation between consumption and its determinants, real wage, excises, unemployment and the real interest rate, changes over the sample. Real wages and excises play a role throughout the nineteenth century, whereas the impact of the real interest rate and unemployment is confined to the beginning of the period of modern economic growth.
Geneeskundige zorg voor inwonend dienstpersoneel, 1890-1910.
Op het snijvlak van wet, verzekering en zorgaanbod
K.P. Companje
Medical care for resident servants, 1890-1910. Legislation, insurance and care supply
Health care for resident servants was put on the political agenda by a group of social-democratic women who considered it part of their strategy for women’s emancipation. This essay analyses the background and development of the legal regulation of health care provision for resident servants in The Netherlands between 1890 and 1910. This regulation – that was part of the Law on the Labour
Contract – stipulated that this particular professional group should be guaranteed six weeks of full medical care, provided by the employer. Parliament had accepted the proposal in the expectation that the market would provide for insurance. Therefore, the regulation proved attractive for health care suppliers who raised their tariffs, as well as for private insurers who developed private health
insurance as a new product.
De Hoge Raad van Arbeid, 1919-1940(-1950).
Coen Helderman
The Supreme Council of Labour (1920-1950)
This article assesses the role of the Supreme Council of Labour (1920-1950) in the long term development of the Dutch consultation economy. This first national body for consultation between trade unions and employers’ organisations was created by the first Minister of Labour in the Netherlands, the progressive Catholic P.J.M. Aalberse, to decentralise social legislation and to promote industrial
peace. This article claims that the results of the consultation within the Council were not as successful as has been asserted in literature. The Council was often passed over by the government, and unions and employers’ organisations often met outside the Council. Still, the Council’s existence contributed to the rise of a culture of joint decision-making, which has characterised Dutch socio-economic policy since the Second World War.
'Omdat het historisch gegroeid is'.
De Londense Commissie-Van Rhijn en de ontwikkeling van de sociale verzekeringen in Nederland (1937-1952)
Ton Kappelhof
'Because it is a historical development'. The Van Rhijn-committee and the development of social insurance in the Netherlands (1937-1952)
In 1943 the Dutch government in exile in London formed a committee that had to make a plan for the social insurance after the war. The report of the Van Rhijn-committee published in 1945 has been considered as a watershed in the Dutch social security system. New research, partly based upon the committee’s archive, however, points to a much more gradual development without any major interruptions. Innovations like the general social insurance came already up for discussion from about 1937 but had to wait for introduction upto 1956. Future research on this important aspect of Dutch social history should cover the period 1937-1952 and should not pay too much attention to the divisions between the London scene and the occupied territory on the continent.
De selectiviteit van blijvers.
Een reconstructie van de sociale positie van Duitse migranten in Rotterdam (1870-1885)
Leo Lucassen
The selectivity of stayers: a reconstruction of the social position of German migrants in Rotterdam (1870-1885)
Although Germans have been the most numerous immigrant group in the Netherlands since the seventeenth century, relatively little attention has been paid to their migration and integration patterns. This is especially true for the nineteenth century. In this paper I have used a selection of German migrants in the age of 15-29 who arrived in the city of Rotterdam in the years 1870-1879 and who stayed for good. To measure their social position I have linked these migrants to nominal information in the tax registers of Rotterdam in 1885. Finally, these outcomes have been compared to the socio-economic position of all heads of households in Rotterdam. The conclusion is that the Germans who stayed are not only a favourable selection, but also that their socio-economic position on average was significantly higher than that of the indigenous population and that therefore they did not end up in the second segment of the double labour market.
'Laat ons niet los!'
Het Nederlands-Indonesische Interinsulaire Scheepvaartproject (1968-1974)
Bartel Stompedissel
'Do not let us go!': The Dutch-Indonesian Interisland Shipping Project (1968-1974)
Development aid seems to be characterised by unclear results and limited successes. In search of empirical starting points for an explanation of the inscrutable complexities surrounding this issue, and of the development cooperation between the Netherlands and Indonesia in particular, this article zooms in on a specific development project. The case study of the Dutch-Indonesian Interisland Shipping Project demonstrates the efforts of a group of Dutch experts to improve the interisland shipping network and the level of success. It will show that the project was in many ways frustrated by external factors that prevented the experts from accomplishing their goal.
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