so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional …, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure …

responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states … enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU … shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15, in particular in member states with higher unemployment rates, higher levels of …

-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU LFS we first measure immigrant-native gaps in labor force participation …

immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

-depth look at the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals it sets for the EU, with the aim of shedding light on the question of …