The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … quality, more inclusive to reduce the dropout rate, homogeneous to other EU countries to favour labour mobility, flexible to …

In this paper, using the EU-SILC 2006 data-set, we seek to explore the extent to which a consideration of welfare … economic stress can assist us in making informed choices between alternative poverty indicators. Poverty in the EU is normally … defined in terms of income thresholds defined at the level of each member state. However, the enlargement of the EU and the …

Irish economic boom and EU enlargement have led to increasing reservations being expressed regarding rates deriving from the … EU ‘at risk of poverty’ indicator. Our comparative analysis reports findings for both overall levels of poverty and …

vulnerability of the shift from the ECHP data set to the EU-SILC instrument. Despite the restricted number of deprivation items … available in EU-SILC, we show that there is a substantial overlap between such measures when they are estimated using EU …-wide and Irish specific indicators. By placing the EU-wide measures in the context of the full range of Irish indicators, we …

measures in the context of EU-enlargement and the continuing relevance of class based explanations of variation in life chances …. Employing the EU-SILC data set, we identify for each of a set of welfare regimes a group of economically vulnerable individuals …

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

This paper uses EU-SILC data from 2005 and 2006 to explore the hypothesis that international differences in rates of …