Violence against women remains a major social, public health, and human rights problem in the EU. Violence against women is a complex phenomenon that needs to be understood within the wider social context and within the social and cultural norms that permeate it. Public attitudes and responses...

Equality between women and men is a fundamental value of the European Union and one that has been enshrined in the Treaty from the very beginning, as the Treaty of Rome included a provision on equal pay. Over the last 60 years, societal changes and persistent policy efforts have established a...

Economic independence and fighting gender-based violence are two key priorities in the 2016-19 Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality. Studies assessing economic and health implications of gender-based violence have been undertaken nationally in some Member States as well as for the EU as a...

It is well known that both income and wealth are important determinants of house-holds’ economic well-being. Inequality in economic well-being of households as measured by income or earnings is very well documented, and differences in income between women and men have received wide attention...

This report provides a general overview of the transposition of EU gender equality law in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries) and four candidate countries (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and...

Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...