The European Commission put forwards the strategy for the 2010-2020 period in the Europe 2020 Communication, an ambitious and modern programme of policies aimed at achieving smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Inequality should be seen as a cornerstone of both sustainable and inclusive...

The paper provides an analysis of income inequality developments over the past 30 years in a joint set of the EU countries and OECD (containing specific analyses of income distribution changes in Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea and the US), with concise synthesis of the major findings of...

Disproving fears of a future characterized by ‘jobless growth’, the decade prior to the crisis of 2008 was marked by strong net employment gains, even though many countries failed to achieve the employment targets set within the context of the Lisbon Agenda. Still, just prior to the crisis,...

The European Commission set a target for the reduction of poverty and social exclusion by 2020. Progress are monitored with the help of EU social indicators. Although the inclusion of imputed rent has been advocated by experts in the measurement of income, it has not been adopted in standard...

Measures of material deprivation attempt to capture enforced deprivation. To achieve this survey respondents are usually asked to indicate where non possession of an item of interest is due to not being able to afford it (classified as enforced deprivation) or for some other reason (such as not...