%0 Report %1 mascherini2018upward %A Mascherini, Massimiliano %A Bisello, Martina %A Dubois, Hans %A Eiffe, Franz Ferdinand %C Dublin %D 2018 %K European_Union convergence eurofound labour_market_participation monitoring quality_of_life working_conditions %N ef18003 %R 10.2806/68012 %T Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators %U http://eurofound.link/ef18003 %X In the wake of an economic crisis that had a very uneven impact on social outcomes across EU Member States, EU leaders and policymakers have come to acknowledge that to make social Europe a reality, social convergence must be given an equal footing to economic convergence in policymaking. In this context, and with rising concern over disparities in the social progress of Member States, Eurofound has established a research strand to provide the evidence on whether and where socioeconomic trends are converging or diverging across countries. This report establishes a conceptual framework to support Eurofound’s research on convergence. It develops a methodological strategy to examine convergence and applies it to investigate patterns across the EU in 37 indicators. These encompass four areas of the social domain: employment, working conditions, living conditions and socioeconomic factors. It finds that since the crisis, there has been upward convergence in 23 of the indicators.

@techreport{mascherini2018upward, abstract = {In the wake of an economic crisis that had a very uneven impact on social outcomes across EU Member States, EU leaders and policymakers have come to acknowledge that to make social Europe a reality, social convergence must be given an equal footing to economic convergence in policymaking. In this context, and with rising concern over disparities in the social progress of Member States, Eurofound has established a research strand to provide the evidence on whether and where socioeconomic trends are converging or diverging across countries. This report establishes a conceptual framework to support Eurofound’s research on convergence. It develops a methodological strategy to examine convergence and applies it to investigate patterns across the EU in 37 indicators. These encompass four areas of the social domain: employment, working conditions, living conditions and socioeconomic factors. It finds that since the crisis, there has been upward convergence in 23 of the indicators. }, added-at = {2018-12-19T13:52:21.000+0100}, address = {Dublin}, author = {Mascherini, Massimiliano and Bisello, Martina and Dubois, Hans and Eiffe, Franz Ferdinand}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2548430d76dcc3f78241840bf9422c985/meneteqel}, doi = {10.2806/68012}, institution = {European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions}, interhash = {ca48391e09aba944f7bc07397f92e8f5}, intrahash = {548430d76dcc3f78241840bf9422c985}, keywords = {European_Union convergence eurofound labour_market_participation monitoring quality_of_life working_conditions}, language = {eng}, month = dec, number = {ef18003}, timestamp = {2018-12-19T13:52:21.000+0100}, title = {Upward convergence in the EU: Concepts, measurements and indicators}, type = {Research Report}, url = {http://eurofound.link/ef18003}, year = 2018 }