[PDF] Top 20 The social situation in the European Union 2002

... On 19 June 2000 the Council, based on the proposal and the positive convergence report prepared by the Commission, adopted the decision 2000/427/EC on the adoption by Greece of the single currency on 1 January 2001. As a ... See full document

... different social protection systems, with comparatively few of the unemployed, as noted above, receiving benefit in the southern Member States, so making it difficult for the unemployed to live alone or in ... See full document

... the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) were used. For 2002 and 2003 the prevalence was estimated on the basis of the trend of the 1995-2001 ECHP ... See full document

... Some studies have come to the conclusion that the elasticity of cigarette consump- tion varies according to the horizon of observation, income and age structure of consumers. Numerous studies over the last decade have ... See full document

... From the perspective of other Central European countries, the changes having taken place in Poland can be very important, since the necessity of structural changes lies ahead of them. Any lessons learned from the ... See full document

... The variable and time-varying level of the surveyed measure allows to assume that in the EU member states no effective R&D policy instruments have been developed aimed at rational creation of knowledge that would be ... See full document

... the situation between now and the end of the ...the situation was difficult owing to restrictions on access to certain markets (Japan, Russia) and strong competition from other exporters (Brazil, ...the ... See full document

... The social debate on this second major issue will be based on an evaluation of the situation surrounding the current system and on a series of additional subjects: • possible solutions f[r] ... See full document

... Indicator Unit 1 2 Old age dependency ratio Net migration rate 3 Percentage of the population aged 18-24 having left education with low qualifications % Percentage of the population aged[r] ... See full document

... Table of contents Introduction 7 Trends in Social Protection from 1 s t January 1998 to 31 December 1998 11 Trends in Social Protection in the European Union: Summary report 13 Evolution[r] ... See full document

... hypothetical situation where social trans- fers except old age/survivors' pensions are absent (chart 41) shows that such transfers have an important redistributive effect that helps reduce the number of ... See full document

... Statistical Portrait Corresponding key indicator 1 Ageing of the population Old age dependency ratio 2 Education outcomes Percentage of the population aged 18-24 having left education wi[r] ... See full document

... Voluntary health insurance (VHI) in Member States can then be distinguished further according to how pre- miums are calculated (risk, group or community rated), how benefits are determined and the status of the insu- ... See full document

... In these connections, the role of demographic changes needs to be looked at from different angles, given that: S The changing context - since the establishing of social protection system[r] ... See full document

... of social protection systems will be called for in order to sustain the path to modernisation, decision-makers in the new Member States will be confronted with difficult policy choices imposed by an increasing ... See full document

... of 2002, with prices rising initially mainly due to worsening crop conditions in the United States and with September export prices for US maize up some 28 % on those one year ... See full document

... Die allgemeine EU-SILC-Erhebung und ihr spezielles Modul „Wohnen“ bieten auch eine Vielzahl von Daten über Wohnungsmängel, wie fehlende oder unzureichende sanitäre und elektrische Installationen, schlechte Heiz- oder ... See full document

... The recent judgement in Aranyosi and Caldararu shows that ‘systemic deficiencies’ are not an indispensable requirement for rebutting the presumption of equivalent pro- tection of fundamental rights and that there must be ... See full document

... in 2002, in order to rationalise pre-existing medical indemnity arrangements by transferring to the State, via the Health Service Executive (HSE), hospitals and other health agencies, responsibility for managing ... See full document

... Even if, at the end of 2001, the big aggregates of national accounts gave a rather bleak picture, several other indi- cators exhibited more positive features: for the Fifteen as a whole, employment rose by 1.2 %, ... See full document