ImPRovE Working Papers

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16/17: The impact of social transfers on income poverty and material deprivation

Geranda Notten and Anne-Catherine Guio

16/16: Improving poverty reduction in Europe: what works (best) where?

Chrysa Leventi, Holly Sutherland and Iva Tasseva

16/15: The design of in-work benefits: how to boost employment and combat poverty in Belgium

Dieter Vandelannoote and Gerlinde Verbist

16/13: The Europe 2020 social inclusion indicators: main conclusions of the ImPRovE project on validity, methodological robustness and interrelationships

András Gábos and Tim Goedemé

16/12: The antipoverty performance of universal and means-tested benefits with costly take-up

Alari Paulus

16/11: Towards a more effective governance of socially innovative policies – First insights from the case studies

Stijn Oosterlynck, Andreas Novy, Yuri Kazepov, Gert Verschraegen, Tatiana Saruis, Fabio Colombo, Pieter Cools, Roberta Cucca, Bernhard Leubolt and Carla Weinzierl

16/10: The integration of place-based social innovations into the EU social agenda

Gert Verschraegen and Sebastiano Sabato

16/09: The distributive effects of work-family life policies in European welfare states

Tine Hufkens and Gerlinde Verbist

16/08: The end of cheap talk about poverty reduction: the cost of closing the poverty gap while maintaining work incentives

Diego Collado, Bea Cantillon, Karel Van den Bosch, Tim Goedemé and Dieter Vandelannoote

16/06: Improving territorial cohesion: the role of stakeholders in OMC and cohesion policy

Roberta Cucca and Yuri Kazepov

16/05: Can reference budgets be used as a poverty line?

Tess Penne, Irene Cussó Parcerisas, Lauri Mäkinen, Bérénice Storms and Tim Goedemé

16/04: The tsunamis of educational attainment and part-time employment, and the change of the labour force 1960–2010: what can be learned about self-reinforcing labour-market inequality from the case of the Netherlands, in international comparison?

Wiemer Salverda

16/03: The usage of EU resources in local social innovation

Sebastiano Sabato and Gert Verschraegen

16/02: Has the potential for compensating poverty by women’s employment growth been depleted?

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker, Diego Collado and Bea Bea

16/01: The importance of income-tested benefits in good times and bad: lessons from EU countries

Chrysa Leventi, Olga Rastrigina and Holly Sutherland

15/22: Consistent poverty across the EU

Anna B. Kis and András Gábos

15/21: The EU framework for social innovation - Between entrepreneurship and policy experimentation

Sebastiano Sabato, Bart Vanhercke and Gert Verschraegen

15/20: Decent incomes for the poor: which role for Europe?

Bea Cantillon, Sarah Marchal and Chris Luigjes

15/19: Towards social investment and social innovation in EU member states? First observations of recent developments in Austria

Karin Heitzmann and Florian Wukovitsch

15/18: Stemming the tide. What have EU countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressure?

Sarah Marchal and Ive Marx

15/17: Welfare systems, governance and social innovation: case study country profiles of Austria, Belgium and Italy

Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Kazepov, Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Tatiana Saruis and Florian Wukovitsch

15/16: Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period

Fotis Papadopoulos and Panos Tsakloglou

15/15: Local social innovation and welfare state restructuring: analysing their relationship

Stijn Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Yuri Kazepov, Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Tatiana Sarius and Florian Wokuvitsch

15/14: A fresh look at an old question: is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

Abigail McKnight

15/13: Mobility into and out of poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the precrisis period: The role of income, demographic and labour market events

Eirini Andriopoulou and Panos Tsakloglou

15/12: Trends in the Swedish Social Investment Welfare State: ‘The Enlightened Path’ or ‘The Third Way’ for ‘the Lions’?

Joakim Palme and Axel Cronert

15/11: The social legitimacy of differently targeted benefits

Wim van Oorschot and Femke Roosma

15/10: Do employment-conditional earnings subsidies work?

Lane Kenworthy

15/09: The joint decision of labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints

Francesco Figari and Edlira Narazani

15/08: Tracking, schools’ entrance requirements and the educational performance of migrant students

Jaap Dronkers and Roxanne Korthals

15/07: Non-cash benefits from social housing in Europe: a comparative perspective

Markus Grabka and Gerlinde Verbist

15/06: Employment and poverty dynamics in the EU countries before, during and after the crisis

András Gábos, Réka Branyiczki, Barbara Lange and István Tóth

15/05: The role of immigration policies for immigrants’ selection and economic success

Irena Kogan

15/04: The impact of child care costs and availability on mothers’ labor supply

Daniela Del Boca

15/03: The end of decent social protection for the poor? The dynamics of low wages, minimum income packages and median household incomes

Bea Cantillon, Diego Collado and Natascha Van Mechelen

15/02: Involuntary part-time employment: perspectives from two European labour markets

Michail Veliziotis, Manos Matsaganis and Alexandros Karakitsios

15/01: The interrelationships between the Europe 2020 - social inclusion indicators

Sara Ayllón and András Gábos

14/07: A new kid in town? Active inclusion in European minimum income schemes

Sarah Marchal and Natascha Van Mechelen

14/06: Estimating the poverty reduction effect of tax and benefit policies in Finland 1993-2013 using a microsimulation method

Pasi Moisio, Kirsi-Marja Lehtelä and Susanna Mukkila

14/05: Mountains on the move: recent trends in national and EU-wide income dynamics in old and new EU Member States

Tim Goedemé, Diego Collado and Leen Meeusen

14/04: Distributive Effects of the Crisis and Austerity in Seven EU Countries

Manos Matsaganis and Chrysa Leventi

14/03: A lost decade? Decomposing the effect of 2001-11 tax-benefit policy changes on the income distribution in EU countries

Johyn Hills, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland and Iva Tasseva

14/02: Can education bridge the gap? Education and the employment position of immigrants in Belgium

Vincent Corluy and Gerlinde Verbist

14/01: Components of income inequality and its change in EU countries, 2004-2010

Márton Medgyesi

13/15: The relationship between incomes and living arrangements: variation between countries, over the life course, and over time

Maria Iacovou

13/14: In-work poverty in times of crisis: do part-timers fare worse?

Jeroen Horemans and Ive Marx

13/13: Measuring performance: does the assessment depend on the poverty proxy?

Geranda Notten

13/12: Exploring the multi-level governance of welfare provision and social innovation: welfare mix, welfare models and rescaling

Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Kazepov, Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Florian Wukovitsch, Tatiana Saruis, Eduardo Barberis and Bernhard Leubolt

13/11: Trends and convergence of Europe’s minimum income schemes

Natascha Van Mechelen and Sarah Marchal

13/10: Testing the Statistical Significance of Microsimulation Results: Often Easier than You Think. A Technical Note

Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch, Lina Salanauskaite and Gerlinde Verbist

13/09: Measuring low work intensity – an analysis of the indicator

Terry Ward and Erhan Ozdemir

13/08: The indicators of intertemporal material deprivation: a proposal and an application to EU countries

Conchita D'Ambrosio

13/07: Alternative vs. current measures of material deprivation at EU level: What differences does it make?

Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier

13/06: The effect of local labour market conditions on educational choices: a cross country comparison

Alberto Tumino

13/05: Why has social security become less pro poor?

Bea Cantillon, Natascha Van Mechelen, Olivier Pintelon and Aaron Van den Heede

13/04: Money or kindergarten? Distributive effects of cash versus in-kind family transfers for young children

Michael Förster and Gerlinde Verbist

13/03: The butterfly and the elephant: local social innovation, the welfare state and new poverty dynamics

Stijn Oosterlynck, Yuri Kazepov, Andreas Novy, Pieter Cools, Eduardo Barberis, Florian Wukovitsch, Tatiana Saruis and Bernhard Leubolt

13/02: Towards a common framework for developing cross-nationally comparable reference budgets in Europe

Bérénice Storms, Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch and Kristof Devuyst

13/01: The Evolution of Poverty in the European Union: Concepts, Measurement and Data

Koen Decancq, Tim Goedemé, Karel Van den Bosch and Josefine Vanhille