Economic Inequality
Briefing
15-07-2016
This leaflet provides the main points on economic inequality and the take-home messages from the ECON/EMPL hearing on 21 June 2016 in an easy-to-read Q&A format, to make this topic more easily accessible to a wider audience. It has been prepared by the European Parliament’s Policy Department A on Economic and Scientific Policy.
Briefing
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Policy area
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- collective bargaining
- demography and population
- economic analysis
- economic and social cohesion
- economic conditions
- economic disparity
- economic growth
- ECONOMICS
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- EU statistics
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- full-time employment
- gender equality
- gender mainstreaming
- gross domestic product
- labour law and labour relations
- LAW
- level of education
- mortality
- national accounts
- poverty
- redistribution of income
- rights and freedoms
- social framework
- social inequality
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- teaching
- updating of skills