Welcome to the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

The European Centre is a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research.
On the website you find information about projects, events, websites from 2003 - 2008, all book series, all books outside the series enriched with downloads, cross-references and external links.
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This allows you to view our latest research results and find contact persons.

Executive Director is Prof. Dr. Bernd Marin (information and articles).

Annual Report of the network on income distribution and social inclusion of the European Observatory on the Social Situation available on the European Commission website

The report reviews developments in income inequality and the risk of poverty across the EU on the basis of the data available at the time the analysis was carried out, i.e. in mid-2007.
In practice, this largely means that the data from the new EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2005 for the first time enabled such a review to be carried out on a reasonably comparable basis. It examines in detail a number of aspects of income inequalities and the factors underlying these, issues which are not only of interest in itself but that are important for the formulation of effective policies. Finally, there is a review of recent policy developments affecting the distribution of income and the relative number of people with income below the poverty line in each of the EU Member States extended by Croatia and Turkey.
The report contains contributions of the European Centre researchers Michael Fuchs, Orsolya Lelkes, Marius Rummel and Asghar Zaidi.
Executive summary, full report

Happiness Across the Life Cycle: Exploring Age-Specific Preferences

Written by Orsolya Lelkes our second March Policy Brief has been published. Details