. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU …

The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and …

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … highlight the mechanisms that bring individuals into and out of poverty. -- poverty dynamics ; EU …

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … the EU. …

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence … endogeneity bias. -- poverty dynamics ; EU ; ECHP …