ENEPRI Occasional Papers (closed)

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Welfare and the Labour Market in the EU

01 September 2004

Over the last two decades, EU institutions have been increasingly concerned with the issues of unemployment reduction and job creation. The EU has recommended that member states develop welfare systems that moderate the negative effects of market relationships on the one hand, and enhance the efficiency of market performance on the other.

Health Care and Female Employment: A Potential Conflict?

01 April 2004

C. Katharina Spiess, Torsten Schneider, Joan Costa-Font, Jørgen Mortensen, Concepcio Patxot

This paper presents a discussion of some general conceptual and empirical issues of increasing importance for the analysis of the consequences of ageing: the potential trade-off between ensuring informal health care for the elderly and at the same time achieving an increase in the employment participation ratio for women. It first provides an overview of some general issues in health economics and then turns to some theoretical and empirical investigations of these issues.

Social Europe

01 November 2003

Sjef Ederveen, Ruud de Moooij

Building a Social Europe has received due attention since the founding of the European Community in Rome. The European summit in Lisbon in 2000 was an important milestone in this process. European leaders committed themselves to working together through the ‘open coordination’ method to develop a policy to combat poverty and social exclusion. The open coordination approach means that countries exchange information and encourage each other to pursue policies geared to their social objectives.

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