Daniël van Vuuren

Head of the Social Security cluster, SEO Amsterdam

Professional experience

Daniël van Vuuren is head of the Social Security cluster at SEO Amsterdam Economics. He is also a professor of Social Security and Economics at Tilburg University and a member of the State Commission on Demographic Developments 2050. Daniël has 25 years of experience in applied economic research, with a focus on social security, labor markets, pensions, and public finance. He studied econometrics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1993-1997) and obtained his Ph.D. from the same university (1998-2002).
Before joining SEO, Daniël worked at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, including roles as head of Public Finance (2018-2019), head of Labor, Education, and Pensions (2014-2017), and head of Social Security (2008-2013). He was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts, calculations at the request of ministries and parliament, and numerous research projects.

Daniël researched early retirement, self-employed individuals, disability schemes (Wajong, WIA, and WAO), and part-time pensions. In the periods 2011-2013 and 2017-2019, he was in charge of purchasing power calculations at CPB using the microsimulation model Mimosi, and in the second period, he was also responsible for labor market calculations using the microsimulation model Micsim. At SEO, he led various studies in the field of labor and social security, for instance, an international comparative study on the social minimum in European countries.

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