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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...

This Community of Fairness webinar brings together researchers and policymakers to explore the wide-ranging economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for working women globally.

Financial compensations are often proposed to address regressive distributional impacts of carbon taxes. While financial compensations have shown to benefit vulnerable groups distributionally...

More and more European higher education students decide to take part in international student mobility (ISM). However, not much is known about the actual benefits...

This study shows that the multigenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature claims that this is due...

Erasmus student mobility is the most recognised element of Erasmus+ and clearly popular with an increase in student uptake from 3,000 in 1987 to over 300,000 today. Recent studies show...

Headlines The JRC conducted a systematic empirical analysis that sheds light on the innovation– inequality nexus in the European Union over the period 2004-2014. Innovation is associated with lower...

Headlines Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008-12, income levels across the EU have declined, particularly in Mediterranean Member States. During the same period, income inequality...

Headlines Many EU countries show renewed interest in the use of wealth-related taxes as instruments to reduce the high tax burden on labour, improve public finances and...