Mascherini, Massimiliano
Women and labour market equality: Has COVID-19 rolled back recent gains?
09 december 2020
Closing gender gaps in the labour market by achieving the equal participation of women is among the key objectives of the new Gender Equality Strategy 2020–2025. Despite significant progress in reducing the gender employment gap, it has s...
Upward convergence in material well-being: Is a COVID-19 setback inevitable?
08 december 2020
The EU strives for the upward convergence of its Member States, where their performance improves and gaps between them decrease. Nearly a decade after the Great Recession, the COVID-19 crisis has again put this objective under pressure. Thi...
Youth in a time of COVID
23 oktober 2020
The exponential growth of COVID-19 cases across Europe this autumn has quickly erased hopes that the virus had been contained and confirmed the surge of another wave of the pandemic. With Member States now implementing new restrictive measures for the second time since March in an attempt to control the virus, the COVID-19 crisis has become a health, economic and social crisis.
Upward convergence in the EU: Definition, measurement and trends
30 september 2020
The uneven impact of the 2008–2013 economic crisis on Member States brought upward convergence to the fore in EU political debates. The focus was on orienting social policy towards getting the EU back on track, as encapsulated in the Euro...
Living, working and COVID-19
28 september 2020
This report presents the findings of the Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey, carried out by Eurofound to capture the far-reaching implications of the pandemic for the way people live and work across Europe. The survey was fielded online,...
COVID-19 fallout takes a higher toll on women, economically and domestically
03 juni 2020
While women appear to be more resilient than men to COVID-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout. Measures taken by governments to control the spread of the virus are exacerbating gender divides in unemployment, domestic labour and financial security, all to the disadvantage of women. Meanwhile, work–life conflict is escalating as people work from home, with mothers of small children often bearing the brunt of the impact.
Is history repeating itself? The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on youth
18 maj 2020
While we now know that the idea that ‘COVID-19 only affects older people’ is fake news, the first weeks of the pandemic have shown that young people are in general more resilient than older people to the disease. But are they also more resilient to its social and economic impacts?
Priorities for a new Europe
03 mars 2020
This compendium of articles presents a snapshot of some of Eurofound’s most recent research, and highlights important 21st-century trends in quality of life and working conditions throughout the EU. It is organised around the six priority areas set out by the new European Commission for a transition to a fair, climate-neutral and digital Europe.
A more equal Europe? Convergence and the European Pillar of Social Rights
10 december 2019
The European Pillar of Social Rights is designed to act as a compass for a renewed process of upward convergence among Member States towards better working and living conditions. It is accompanied by a Social Scoreboard to monitor the progr...
Upward convergence in employment and socioeconomic factors
- Promoting social cohesion and convergence
- Social policies
- Social protection
- Unemployment
- Working conditions
- Välfungerande och inkluderande arbetsmarknader
- Inequality
- Living conditions
- Minimilön
- Övervakning av konvergensen inom Europeiska unionen
- Sysselsättnings- och arbetsmarknader
- Arbetsvillkor och hållbart arbete
25 september 2019
Upward convergence is a process whereby the performance of EU Member States in a given domain or range of domains is seen to improve while gaps between Member States reduce. Achieving upward convergence is of crucial importance to the EU, as the increase of disparities among Member States threatens the cohesion of the Union by counteracting citizens’ expectations that EU membership will improve working and living conditions.