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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...

The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to promote the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of international agreements reached at the UN...

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...

It is widely discussed that the pandemic has impacted educational inequalities across the world. However, in contrast to data on health or unemployment, data on education outcomes are not...

The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRI) is a multidimensional index which ranks 161 countries for their policy performance across three pillars covering public...

The Women’s Empowerment Progress Index (WEPI) of The European House – Ambrosetti is a composite indicator that aims to track and measure progress in multiple domains of women’s empowerment. In particular...

We estimate the effectiveness of a government‐led anti‐domestic‐abuse campaign launched in the midst of the covid‐19 pandemic on the number of calls to the Italian domestic violence helpline. In the week after the start of the campaign...

The debate on a shorter working time is back in several EU countries. While the debate increasingly mentions well-being and work-life balance among the reasons to reduce working time...

This paper explores the evolution of inequality of opportunity in the prevalence of chronic diseases along the life cycle and across different birth cohorts for individuals aged 50 or older and residing...