Using data from the Standard Eurobarometer survey 75.1 of 2011, the paper tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a key determinant of intra-European Union (EU) mobility. It does so by estimating a multinomial logit model with propensity matching comparing those survey...

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal redistribution. The redistributive role of direct taxation has...

The issue of social security is well represented within the ILO's concerns, and documents bearing upon social risks are defined and specified, in the preamble of its Constitution yet (1919), the ILO governing entitlement to social security benefits, while guaranteeing and assuming the role...