Social Europe: Living Standards and Welfare States

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate how social policy regimes interact with personal resources and circumstances to affect people's well-being.

Assessing changes in individuals' lives over time, the study highlights variations in life-opportunities acr...