LSE Consulting, the consulting arm of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has arried out out a Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) in support of the negotiations for the odernisation of the trade part of the Global Agreement (GA) between the European Union (EU) and Mex...
The European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS) aims to collect comparable statistical data by enforcing a common methodology. Given the different national social protection systems and their continuous adaptation to emerging needs, inevitably there are cases of interven...
Gender analysis provides the necessary data and information to integrate a gender perspective into policies, programmes and projects. As a starting point for gender mainstreaming, gender analysis identifies the differences between and among women and men in terms of their relative position in so...
Environmental and health impacts of PBT/vPvB substances depend on expected environmental exposure concentrations, i.e. the stock. Due to persistence, environmental exposure concentrations cannot adequately be described by pointing at current emissions or release only since the previously release...
The European System of integrated Social PROtection Statistics (ESSPROS) was developed in the late 70s by Eurostat jointly with representative of the Member States of the European Union in response to the need for a specific instrument of statistical observation of social protection in the EU Me...
According to the terms of reference, the purpose of this project is to provide an interim evaluation of the implementation of the EU-Korea FTA, which will form the basis of a Staff Working Document of the Commission. In particular, the evaluation examines the effectiveness and efficiency of the ...
This publication focuses on the challenges and opportunities of population ageing in Europe. Reviewing the outcomes of EU-funded research in social sciences funded under the sixth and the seventh framework programmes, it aims to address the question of how the EU is preparing for advanced popula...
Demographic change, social progress and economic cycles have impacted household composition in Europe. This report provides an overview of household types in the European Union, how they have changed over the period 2007–2017 and how household type relates to outcomes in terms of living conditio...
This 2016 Parlemeter of the European Parliament (EP/EB 86.1) was conducted in the 28 Member States of the European Union, from 24 September until 3 October 2016, by Kantar Public (previously TNS opinion). This socio-demographic focus aims at presenting the national socio-demographic details for ...
The ‘working poor’ are a substantial group, the latest estimate putting 10% of European workers at risk of poverty, up from 8% in 2007. This report describes the development of in-work poverty in the EU since the crisis of 2008, picking up where an earlier Eurofound report on this subject, publi...
This study is aimed at describing the socio-economic situation and the state of play of energy, transport and tourism linkages in the Adriatic and Ionian Region. It identifies development gaps between EU Member States and non-EU countries that participate in the European Union Strategy for the A...
This summary describes the results of the sixth in a series of Eurobarometer surveys undertaken with the overall objective of providing an up-to-date picture of European citizens’ perceptions of the current social climate. It examines their views on 15 separate aspects relating to personal circu...
The European Social Survey (ESS) is a new multi-country biennial survey, the first round of which comprised 22 nations. It has two main aims. First, it seeks to measure, monitor and interpret changing public attitudes within Europe and the way in which they interact with Europe’s changing instit...
Demographic ageing threatens to unravel European social protection systems and labour markets in the not too-distant future. Welfare state reform is called for across policy domains yet remains controversial. How can European societies safeguard social rights without endangering the financial su...
The long-term care (LTC) sector employs a growing share of workers in the EU and is experiencing increasing staff shortages. The LTC workforce is mainly female and a relatively large and increasing proportion is aged 50 years or older. Migrants are often concentrated in certain LTC jobs. This re...
In recent years, it has often been claimed that social cohesion, the social fabric of our societies, is decaying. The present report undertakes an empirical exploration of the validity of this alarmist view and considers the importance of social cohesion for citizens’ assessments of their qualit...
The report is delivered within the framework of the expert contract entitled Coal regions in transition – Analysis of SME sector and identification of its development potential – Upper Nitra region, Slovakia. The political decision to phase out coal mining in Upper Nitra has been made and discus...
This paper reviews the current problems in obtaining timely information on social developments within EU Member States, and reports on a stocktaking exercise of existing national approaches to providing timely social data, as well as the possibilities that are being explored within the framework...
The integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon 2020 is an important feature of the programme. To monitor the development of this cross-cutting issue is an EU commitment. Various dimensions are examined, such as the budget going to SSH partners (overall and in each part of the...
The European Parliament’s Special Eurobarometer (EP EB85.1) was conducted in the 28 Member States of the European Union from 9 to 18 April 2016 by TNS opinion. This socio-demographic focus study aims to present a national socio-demographic breakdown for some of the key findings of the survey: th...
