This paper uses the European Community Household Panel study (ECHP) to profile labour market experiences in the European Union. Cross-sectional snapshots of labour markets miss out on part of the range of transitions between employment and non-employment. Panel data allows a more accurate...

When poverty is viewed as a matter of degree, i.e. as a fuzzy measure, two additional aspects are introduced into the analysis compared with the conventional poor/non-poor dichotomous approach: (i) the choice of membership functions i.e. quantitative specification of individuals' or households'...

This paper uses the European Community Household Panel study (ECHP) to profile labour market experiences in the European Union. Cross-sectional snapshots of labour markets miss out on part of the range of transitions between employment and non-employment. Panel data allows a more accurate...

This Working Paper provides a broad assessment of data accuracy and survey errors in EU-SILC, taking comparability of the results across the national surveys as a basic requirement. A typology of errors in survey data is proposed, distinguishing various categories of errors in measurement on the...

This Working Paper addresses some statistical aspects related to the construction from EU-SILC data of indicators of poverty and social exclusion for sub-national regions. Conceptual and methodological issues in going from the national level - for which EU-SILC surveys are primarily designed- to...