Gender equality is an important issue for the EU and evidence shows that ethnic minority women are more vulnerable to social exclusion and poverty than women of the native population and minority men. This report examines the situation of women belonging to disadvantaged [...]
Economic growth in the EU turned out to be better than expected in 2006, mainly due to brisk global growth and favourable domestic conditions. GDP growth for the EU-27 averaged 3% for the year as a whole, up from 1.8% in 2005, and is expected to grow at a similar rate in [...]
The 18th issue of the Employment in Europe report is divided into 5 chapters, each shedding light on current trends or on a particular topical issue of relevance for European labour markets. Areas of focus include evaluation of active labour market policies; the link [...]
This publication presents the methodological framework of the Labour Force Surveys in the EU, Candidate and EFTA Countries in 2004. Information is provided on the history and background of the surveys, the sample design and rotation pattern, the weighting procedure and [...]
While the Copenhagen European Council ( 93) defined the common values (democracy, a market economy and adherence to the aim of the political, economic and monetary Union) that a country must meet in order to be a member of the EU, the Essen European Council ( 94) determined [...]
The aim of the paper is to discuss two problematic aspects of the statistical approach to the notion of "working poor": the definition of workers (including that used for the European indicator "in-work poverty risk") and the double level (worker-individual / at risk of [...]
This paper studies the distribution of labour earnings among employees within the EU using data from Wave 2007-1 of the Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The review of available information and the comparisons with external sources show that [...]
Since 2009, the European Union (EU) portfolio of commonly agreed social indicators includes measures of material deprivation. The rationale for this inclusion is that if purely income-based indicators of poverty and inequality are essential, they are nevertheless not [...]
This report was commissioned by the European Commission in the framework of the European Community action programme to combat discrimination (2001-06). The action programme is designed tosupport and supplement efforts at Community level and in the Member States to combat [...]
The purpose of this project is to study the market developments in automotive retailing and after-sales sectors following the entry into force of the Regulation No. 1400/2002 (henceforth referred to as BER 1400/2002 or simply "the Regulation" or "BER"), the new EC [...]
In 2005, IPTS launched a project which aimed to assess the developments in eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning in the 10 New Member States at national, and at cross-country level. At that time, the 10 New Member States were Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, [...]
With the explosion of e-commerce, and especially the use of the internet for business transactions, the "paperless office" should surely already have become a reality. Its progress has, however, been impede by tha lack of sufficient information security and a workable legal [...]
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Measuring Civic Competence in Europe is part of a process to establish and monitor the learning outcomes needed to facilitate the development of active citizens in Europe. This report is an exploration of how civic competence can be measured and the results of these [...]
Most analyses of the relationship between health and the economy focus on average health, but health is actually very unevenly distributed across society. In all countrieswith available data, significant differences in health exist between socioeconomic groups, in the sense [...]
The European Commission s Better Training for Safer Food initiative(BTSF) has now completed its fourth year of activity. It serves totrain Member State control staff and third country participantsdealing with food, veterinary and plant health issues. BTSF continued its [...]