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View article: Simulating the Impact of Employment Growth on Poverty: Implications for the European Social Targets
Simulating the Impact of Employment Growth on Poverty: Implications for the European Social Targets Open
The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan sets ambitious targets to be achieved by 2030, including reducing the number of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) by 15 million and raising the employment rate to 78% amo…
View article: Food aid in four European countries: Assessing the price and content of charitable food aid packages
Food aid in four European countries: Assessing the price and content of charitable food aid packages Open
Description The dataset is the result of a study on the content and monetary value of food aid packages distributed by local food aid organisations in four European cities: Antwerp, Barcelona, Budapest and Helsinki. Concretely, three food …
View article: Food aid in four European countries: Assessing the price and content of charitable food aid packages
Food aid in four European countries: Assessing the price and content of charitable food aid packages Open
Description The dataset is the result of a study on the content and monetary value of food aid packages distributed by local food aid organisations in four European cities: Antwerp, Barcelona, Budapest and Helsinki. Concretely, three food …
View article: Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries
Silent Elements of Policy Change: Inflation and Uprating Mechanisms in the Low Countries Open
Policy responses to the inflation crisis in Belgium and the Netherlands show great similarities but also significant differences. In both countries responses were quick and substantial. Measures covered prices more than household incomes w…
View article: Introduction: Comparing Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Introduction: Comparing Social Policy Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis Open
This introduction to our themed section on social policy responses to the recent cost-of-living crisis spells out this topic and the key issues examined in the section’s main contributions before summarising their findings and overall cont…
View article: How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived?
How Do European Countries Use EU‐Funded Food Aid and How Important Is It for the Most Deprived? Open
The Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) aims at providing food and (non‐)material assistance to the most vulnerable European citizens. Linking macro and micro data on the importance of FEAD resources shows, however, a mixed p…
View article: Some Useful Sources
Some Useful Sources Open
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View article: Policy Legacies, Welfare Regimes, and Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Europe
Policy Legacies, Welfare Regimes, and Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Europe Open
Much has been written since the publication in 1990 of Esping-Andersen’s The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism on the concept of welfare regime as an analytical tool to study policy stability and change in Europe and beyond. As a concept,…
View article: Reaching the European social targets: the need for better-balanced Power Resources
Reaching the European social targets: the need for better-balanced Power Resources Open
Reaching the three targets of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) Action Plan — an employment rate of at least 78%, at least 60% of adults attending training courses every year and lifting 15 million people out at risk of poverty o…
View article: The making of a European Social Union: The case of food banks and the right to minimum income protection
The making of a European Social Union: The case of food banks and the right to minimum income protection Open
With the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), the European Union (EU) is involved in the field of last resort social protection, mainly by subsidising food aid. This working paper examines (a) to what extent FEAD funds are ge…
View article: Poverty, social policy and the welfare state: A research agenda
Poverty, social policy and the welfare state: A research agenda Open
While relative income poverty among the elderly has declined quite substantially in many countries over the past decades, poverty among the working age population has started to grow. This raises three sets of fundamental questions address…
View article: Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs-oriented distribution of the social funds?
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs-oriented distribution of the social funds? Open
The European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) are instruments by which the European Union (EU) acts as a ‘material supporter’ of national welfare states. Originally, these funds served social obje…
View article: The <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states
The <span>COVID</span>‐19 crisis and policy responses by continental European welfare states Open
Social protection in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands share Bismarckian roots. Over time, these welfare states were however in constant flux and incorporated to a greater or lesser extend elements of both the Anglo‐Saxon and Nordic mod…
View article: Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 crisis
Social policy in the face of a global pandemic: Policy responses to the <span>COVID</span>‐19 crisis Open
How have welfare states responded to the coronavirus pandemic? In this introductory article, we provide a synopsis of papers that comprise this special issue on social policy responses to COVID‐19, an overview of some of the key questions …
View article: Social policy strategies to combat income poverty of children and families in Europe
Social policy strategies to combat income poverty of children and families in Europe Open
This chapter provides some general policy recommendations for combating income poverty among children and families in Europe. It identifies which families with children are most at risk of poverty. Single parents obviously belong to this c…
View article: The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: The cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives
The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: The cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives Open
How can poverty reduction be improved and at what cost? Available evidence suggests that social investment strategies and employment policies are important but not sufficient. In order to reduce the number of people below the relative at-r…
View article: Has the potential for compensating poverty by womens employment growth been depleted
Has the potential for compensating poverty by womens employment growth been depleted Open
Although employment growth is propagated as being crucial to reduce poverty across OECD countries, the actual impact of employment growth on poverty rates is still unclear. This study presents novel estimates of the impact of macro-level t…