Taxes account for a significant share of the final price of energy products in the EU. Energy taxes provide flexible and cost-effective means for reinforcing the polluter-pays principle and for reaching objectives of the European Green Deal. However, as energy taxation raises the...
This report assesses current microfinance provision in the European Union (EU) and presents recommendations on how to bridge the financing gap and to meet evolving market needs as a means of promoting growth, employment and inclusion across the EU. Most microfinance in the EU com...
This study analyses various services provided to social assistance beneficiaries and presents a cost-benefit assessment of selected active labour market policies. This study defines social assistance to include both minimum income support and unemployment assistance. In order to ...
The brochure ‘Social Innovation: inspirational practices supporting people throughout their lives’ presents 27 examples of social innovation initiatives across the European Union, one from each Member State. It highlights the diversity and success of social innovations in Europe,...
The objective of this report is to provide an overview of developments in the area of child and family policy across the European Union, with a focus on developments that took place in the year of 2019. This report has been produced by the European Platform for Investing in Child...
This representativeness study aims to identify the relevant national and supranational social partners – that is, the trade unions and employer organisations – in the human health sector, and to show how they relate to the sector’s European-level organisations representing employ...
The Eurobarometer special surveys on undeclared work conducted in 2007, 2013 and 2019 provide a unique insight into the trends in the undeclared economy in the EU. Examining these surveys, this report evaluates the prevalence, characteristics, distribution and trends over time in...
European solidarity is in high demand as the Covid-19 pandemic delivers a deep and asymmetric shock to EU economies and societies. Will there be sufficient supply? Using new EUI survey evidence on attitudes towards European solidarity, conducted by YouGov in 13 EU member states a...
This leaflet has been written with a specific focus on young EU citizens and young persons who are not EU citizens themselves, but who have a family member who is an EU citizen. It complements our general leaflet on the topic of EU citizens living in the United Kingdom. The leafl...
Before the COVID-19 outbreak put Europe and the world under unprecedented public health, economic and social stress, 2020 had started with continuing positive trends in the EU. Despite the deceleration of economic growth relative to 2018, throughout 2019, the EU had the highest e...
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, describes trends in the situation of single parents in the EU (with additional evidence from Iceland and Norway). It analy...
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the education sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effec...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was a wake-up call for gender equality in Europe. It reminded us about everyday gender inequalities in our society that often go unnoticed – from the shortage of men working in the care sector to the reality of violence facing women in ...
The EU contributes to the creation of more and better jobs across Europe, and aims for decent social standards for all its citizens, including through the €86.4 billion European Social Fund. Responsibility for employment policies and social affairs is shared between the EU and it...
Gençler, AB’nin geleceğini şekillendirmenin yanı sıra yeşil ve dijital geçişte başarılı olabilmek için taşıdıkları potansiyeli tamamıyla geliştirmeye yönelik bütün fırsatları hak etmektedirler. Gençler, iş gücü piyasasında genelde zor bir başlangıçla karşı karşıya kalırken, bu du...
The study focuses on the role of EU funding in fighting multidimensional child poverty in EU Member States. It analyses the use of EU funding (that is, ESF, ERDF, EAFRD and FEAD) to address the problems of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and in particular materi...
The overall aim of this study is to assess how and to what extent Member States use EU funding to improve the situation of children at risk of poverty and social exclusion, in particular of those living in severe material deprivation. The study is based on desk research, intervie...
Despite recent positive developments, child poverty and cycles of intergenerational poverty and disadvantage remain a problem in the EU with the COVID-19 pandemic aggravating the situation. The European Union is considered a leader in fighting child poverty. A milestone was the C...
The 2020 Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII) is a multidimensional index which ranks 159 countries for their policy performance across three pillars covering public services, progressive taxation and labour rights. The statistical audit presented herein was performed b...
The aim of this report is to add to the discussion on how Eurofound can contribute to supporting capacity building of social partners for effective social dialogue. The report includes a review by Eurofound aimed at identifying the capacity-building needs and initiatives of socia...
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the sea fisheries sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and e...
This study provides information allowing for an assessment of the representativeness of the actors involved in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the paper sector. Their relative representativeness legitimises their right to be consulted, their role and effective...
Young people deserve all possible opportunities to develop their full potential to shape the future of the EU and to thrive in the green and digital transitions. Young people often face a difficult start in the labour market, and this has been emphasised by the coronavirus pandem...
This leaflet has been written with a specific focus on non-EU citizens who have a current or former connection to an EU citizen, as a family member. It complements our general leaflet on the topic. This leaflet is purely for information purposes and has no legal force. It does no...
In line with the European Commission’s Request to the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to periodically report on the costs and past performance of retail investment products, this report provides an analysis of costs – for 2018 – and past performance – for the period 2014-...
The shift towards a market-based economy during the early 2000s prompted the Syrian regime to adopt a new flexible framework of authoritarian governance. This flexibility was partially manifested in the government encouraging Syrian civil society to compensate for the gradual sta...
This study provides a review of the EU Framework for national Roma integration strategies (NRIS) up to 2020. It was produced at the request of the European Parliament's Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and Committee for Employment and Social Affa...
Following the call in 2015 from the European Parliament to introduce a Child Guarantee and the subsequent request to the European Commission in 2017 to implement a Preparatory Action to explore its potential scope, the Commission launched a feasibility study in 2018 to examine an...
This study looks at definitions and ways to measure and benchmark social sustainability, then explores how the concept can be integrated into EU policy-making processes, giving concrete examples of how it is already used in policies and projects at national, regional and local le...
The Voice of Children’s study has been organised within the Feasibility Study for a Child Guarantee (FSCG) in the form of focus groups with 35 European children, aged between 9 and 17, in four countries: Belgium for children with disabilities; Italy for children living in precari...
Children in precarious family situations remain at risk of destitution throughout Europe and face barriers to accessing basic rights. Public policies and services in Member States are, slowly and at different speeds, adapting to these emerging situations of precariousness by expa...
Following the call in 2015 from the European Parliament to introduce a Child Guarantee and the subsequent request to the Commission in 2017 to implement a Preparatory Action to explore its potential scope, the Commission launched a study in 2018 which aims at examining and making...
For the purpose of this study, children with a migrant background are defined as children with at least one parent born outside the EU. According to EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data, their share in the population of children amounts to 7.1% at EU level...
Almost a quarter of all children in the EU are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The European Parliament and the European Commission called for a Child Guarantee to ensure that every child in Europe in a vulnerable situation has access to free healthcare, free education, fr...
The briefing reviews social and employment policy recommendations made by European and international organisations in relation to the coronavirus crisis. ...
The issues related to children with disabilities have been largely absent from EU policy development and implementation and not much is documented with regards to the lives of children with disabilities and their families. The FSCG Country and PA Reports describe the life situati...
This report takes a broad definition of the Target Group ‘children residing in institutions’ and will capture the situation of children in alternative care in European Union (EU) countries. By using the term ‘children in alternative care’, the aim of this report is to show that a...
This report summarises some of the most relevant theoretical and empirical challenges associated with the measurement and analysis of multidimensional inequalities. Each section delves into a specific topic, presents a state-of-the-art review of the key findings in that particula...
Many social security systems provide benefits to members of a family in the event of a specific social risk, such as sickness, parenthood, family, old age or long-term care. It is therefore essential to establish which persons comprise a family unit and which persons of a family ...
The application of national social security provisions in cross-border situations is highly complex. It may entail consequences on the supranational and international levels that national legislatures could not have planned for when such internal provisions were designed and adop...
Inclusion in education is an ongoing process of removing barriers that prevent some learners to participate in quality education. This policy memo demonstrates that inclusive ECEC could further the goal of inclusive education, by ensuring that inclusion begins early in the trajec...
This study examines the interaction between social dialogue practices and human resources management (HRM) policies in European multinational companies (MNCs). It looks at the changing role of HRM and its interaction with European Works Councils (EWCs), which can act as a link be...
Social economy enterprises are based on shared characteristics and their main objective is to have a social and societal impact. As economic operators, they produce goods and services, often of general interest, but they use any surpluses primarily to achieve these social and soc...
Europeans are, on average, better educated and live healthier, longer and more prosperous lives today than at any point in the past. However, this view on average achievements obscures large disparities, both within and between European countries. The income of the richest 20 % o...
This report – ‘Beyond averages : fairness in an economy that works for people’ – was written before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses some of the most pertinent fairness dimensions in relation to the agenda for a fair, inclusive and social European Union. Income...
In this leaflet you can find information about Brexit, how it may impact you as a senior EU citizen and your family living in the UK, and what you may need to do next. It is purely for information purposes and has no legal force. It does not provide any legal interpretation of EU...
European social dialogue is a process involving discussions, consultations, negotiations and joint actions with the organisations representing the two sides of industry: employers and workers. ...
This report looks at the economic consequences of the R&I divide across EU regions and highlights the policy challenge they represent. It reviews the theoretical factors behind current levels of territorial polarisation, maps the current state of this divide and presents an e...
Europe's prosperity and social model depend on its ability to ride the new wave of innovation ahead of us, while ensuring a broad participation in the benefits accruing from these innovations. This ability to benefit from innovation depends on access to relevant skills, which...