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To promote transparency and provide information, the Federal Planning Bureau regularly publishes the methods and results of its works. The publications are organised in different series, such as Outlooks, Working Papers and Planning Papers. Some reports can be consulted here, along with the Short Term Update newsletters that were published until 2015. You can search our publications by theme, publication type, author and year.
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of the main drivers of economic growth and productivity evolution in Belgium between 1970 and 2004, based on a consistent data set. The growth accounting methodology is applied to explain value added and labour productivity growth for total economy, manufacturing and market services. This decomposition exercise diverges from what has been applied in Belgium up to now, as it uses capital services flows rather than capital stock to measure the contribution of capital factor to production growth. Contributions of the main industries to value added, employment and productivitygrowth are also estimated.
Working Papers - Working Paper 05-07 (en),
Working Papers - Working Paper 02-07 (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 12-06 (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic forecasts 2007 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2006-2011 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic forecasts 2006 C (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2006 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2005-2010 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic forecasts 2005 C (fr), (nl),
Closed series - Planning Paper 97 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 21-04 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - Report 12-04
Closed series - Planning Paper 96 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2005 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2004-2009 (fr), (nl),
The impact of the current personal income tax reform on wages, value added and production is assessed. When fully implemented and all feedback on the goods and factor markets is accounted for, the 2001 fiscal reform and the removal of the crisis surcharge tax will cut the personal income tax rate by 3.1 percentage points and the market-sector real wage by 1.7%-2.6%.
Working Papers - Working Paper 11-04 (en),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic forecasts 2004 C (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2004 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 16-03 (fr),
This paper assesses to which extent the policy of reducing employers’ social security contributions has increased market sector employment in 1995-2000. The analytical framework is a macroeconometric labour market model of the market sector that models added value, the employment of labour and capital, the setting of wages and prices, the matching of supply and demand on the labour market, and the dynamics that tie short-run behaviour to the steady state. The real wage cost depends on the wage gap, labour productivity, the replacement rate of unemployment benefits to the take home wage, and tensions on the labour market. The model comes in two versions. The ‘right-to-manage’ version links the wage cost to the unemployment rate; the ‘job-search’ version ties the wage cost to the unemployment-vacancy-ratio.
Working Papers - Working Paper 14-03 (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 13-03 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - IT 01-2003 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2003-2008 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2003 C
Working Papers - Working Paper 02-03 (nl),
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