Neda Delfani wins the SER Thesis Prize
For her thesis Neda Delfani examined the role of partisanship in the effectiveness of the European Strategy for Growth and Jobs (ESGJ).
More than ninety Master’s Degree students were competing for the 2012 SER Thesis Prize. The submissions covered a wide range of disciplines and topics.
Neda Delfani will be invited to the award ceremony at the next Council meeting and receive EUR 2000. She will have the opportunity to address the public Council meeting and spend a day working alongside the President of the Social and Economic Council, Alexander Rinnooy Kan.
About the SER
The Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) is an advisory and consultative body of employers' representatives, union representatives and independent experts. SER aims to help create social consensus on national and international socio-economic issues.
Established in law by the 1950 Industrial Organisation Act (Wet op de bedrijfsorganisatie), the SER is the main advisory body to the Dutch government and the parliament on national and international social and economic policy.
About Neda Delfani
Neda is currently PhD Candidate at the AISSR. She studies the role of housing, and in particular home ownership, as a source of income during old-age in different welfare regimes. Her second question concerns the effect of the increasing presence of housing asset-based welfare on poverty and inequality.