Publications

2009

Post-communist welfare pathways

Leading experts examined welfare across countries and social policy domains. This is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the progress that has been made since 1989, and the main challenges for welfare state regimes in Central and Eastern Europe.

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2008

Juvenile alcohol scenes

Policy brief

The conspicuous alcohol consumption by young people in groups, here called ‘juvenile alcohol scenes’, is at the focus of attention. We compared a metropolitan and a rural area in the wine-growing East of Austria.

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Poverty across Europe

Policy brief

This Policy brief discusses the sensitivity of these estimates to the measures used and explores the underlying patterns across the vulnerable groups and the likely causes of poverty in these countries.

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Annual Report of Activities 2008/2009

European Centre reports

Provides an overview of research activities and publications in 2008 and 2009.

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Well-being of older people in ageing societies

Books & contributions to books

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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