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Decent incomes for all: improving policies in Europe

[…] the corresponding responses by European welfare states. They analyze the effect of social and fiscal policies before, during, and after the recent economic crisis and study the impact of alternative policy packages on poverty and inequality. The volume also explores how social investment and local initiatives of social innovation can contribute to tackling poverty, […]

The psychology of Brexit: from psychodrama to behavioural science

Provides a compelling, research-informed, account of the psychological aspects of the Brexit experience. Explores Brexit’s psychological impact on social attitudes, future thinking, and collective and individual mental health. Demonstrates how the events of Brexit have been shaped by psychological factors. Reveals how cultural biases (such as sexism) shape the manner in which politicians are […]

Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty: an adequate strategy?

[…] investigate this assertion by simulating a set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers’ employment. For a variety of European welfare states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both […]

Troubled Families Programme: national evaluation. Family Survey – follow-up survey

This report is based on a longitudinal follow-up survey of families in receipt of help from the Troubled Families Programme in nineteen local authorities, providing a picture of families’ lives and feedback on the keyworker experience. It presents findings from a cohort of 654 main carers and 307 young people who were interviewed in 2015/16 […]

Second earners and in-work poverty in the EU

Dual or multiple earnership has been considered an important factor to prevent in-work poverty. The aim of this paper is to quantify the impact of second earnership on the risk of in-work poverty and the role of the tax-benefit systems in moderating this risk. Our analysis refers to 2014 and employs EU-SILC data and […]

An intergenerational audit for the UK

[…] for young people are unlikely to be reversed in any significant way. And neither the youth home ownership uptick nor rising pension contributions can counteract the larger impact of passive wealth increases for those who have defined benefit pensions or were already home owners. As well as what it feels like to progress into […]