Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME)

In the complex landscape of energy markets, ensuring fair and transparent operations is essential to foster competition, protecting consumers, and promoting a sustainable energy future. The key regulatory framework...

Ireland has reformed its public employment service over the years to streamline delivery and better focus its resources on helping jobseekers. Efficient support to jobseekers...

Exploiting admission thresholds for participating in Erasmus, the most popular higher education study abroad programme in Europe, we implement a regression discontinuity design and show that student...

As retirement ages increase around the world, not all workers may be equally able to extend their working lives. In this article, we examine the health...

Over three years since the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved, many countries still have suboptimal vaccination rates despite holding great amounts of vaccines...

According to a recent Eurobarometer, 81% of EU citizens perceive income inequalities as too great. Support for greater redistribution is high (77% of EU citizens) and correlates with perceived...

The policy brief uses representative data from two Eurobarometer surveys to investigate how perceptions and attitudes towards fairness and inequality have changed over the past five...

Growing disparities on multiple socio-economic dimensions have contributed to a sense of unfairness and discontent in Europe. Fairness is a subjective phenomenon, but the far-reaching consequences of perceptions of unfairness warrant a closer...

Exploiting high-frequency data from the Italian anti-violence helpline, police reports of domestic abuse and maltreatments, and a unique geolocalized dataset on killings of women, we show that the news coverage...

The new European Care Strategy, aimed at ensuring that people in need of care have access to affordable care of good quality at all stages of their life, includes...