This book is about the incomes and living standards of the people of Europe. It treats employment, income inequality and poverty, housing, health, education, deprivation and social exclusion. The reader will learn about many of the social issues confronting Europe. How much income poverty is...

This Working Paper examines the following rules in the EU-SILC survey, that is, a set of rules defining which people will be followed and interviewed from year to year, and under what circumstances. More specifically the study look at these rules in terms both of the wording of the regulations,...

This Working Paper examines the following rules in the EU-SILC survey, that is, a set of rules defining which people will be followed and interviewed from year to year, and under what circumstances. More specifically the study look at these rules in terms both of the wording of the regulations,...

This paper argues that we need more general statistical indices for the analysis of the European labour markets. First, the paper discusses some normative aspects implicit in the current definition of the employment rate, which is a fundamental policy target in the new strategy Europe 2020....

This publication presents the LMP Methodology 2013, which consolidates the LMP Methodology - Revision of2006 with the Addendum to the 2006 LMP methodology (published in March 2009) and incorporates a number of changes approved by the LMP Task Force on methodology in July 2013. The LMP...