Contents: Part I: Financing economic and social cohesion -- 1. Funding European solidarity / Ewald Nowotny, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald, Helene Schuberth -- 2. The role of the European Union in fostering convergence / Benoît Cœuré -- Part II: The role of monetary policy in catching-up -- 3....

The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions, prompting many governments to implement short-time employment aid (STEA) to mitigate job losses and income reductions. This study examines the effectiveness of STEA in the short and long term in Europe among workers aged 50 and...

What is the effect of wars abroad on the attitudes of people living in countries that are not directly involved? Using the tenth wave of the European Social Survey, this paper explores how the Russian invasion has affected the political and social attitudes of people across eight European...

SHARE, the "Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe", is a large population-based panel survey among people aged 50 and over with data from 28 European countries and Israel. It investigates individual, economic, health-related, and social life-course circumstances in order to shed...