This report explores the impact of income stability and economic well-being on individual quality of life. Recent enlargement of the European Union to 25 Member States has indelibly redrawn the economic landscape: the gap in living standards between the richest and poorest countries is...

The development of conceptual frameworks for the analysis of social exclusion has somewhat out-stripped related methodological developments. This paper seeks to contribute to this process through the application of self-organising maps (SOMs) to the analysis of a detailed set of material...

In this paper we address the question of the relative importance of within and between country differences in income and material deprivation in the European Union in the context of recent suggestions that insufficient attention has been paid to cross-national differences. In particular, we...