Publications

2008

Well-being of older people in ageing societies

This book studies how ageing factors such as ill health and disability become ever more important in determining the personal well-being of older people. These factors have financial implications not captured by an analysis of pension income alone.

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The Vienna drug policy 1970 to 2005

The study draws the success story of a regional drug policy that is based on the organisational combination of the drug-related activities of the city ("cross-sectional policy") and the professionalisation of the drug services, with the aim of social reintegration.

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I-CUE country reports

The country reports contain sections on: key features of national tax-benefit systems, identification of appropriate data sources, requirements for tax/benefit-microsimulation, specific modelling issues, presentation of the model.

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Features and challenges of population ageing

This Policy Brief discusses population ageing and its possible implications as well as public policy responses to the challenges posed. The focus is on Europe as a region and how individual countries as well as the EU and the UNECE could deal with them.

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The labour market situation of people with disabilities in EU25

Many EU Member States made efforts to break down the discrimination barriers with respect to disability and to consider people with disabilities as an integral part of society and the workforce. We use the statistics of employment status as drawn from administrative registers.

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