Austerity and Poverty in the European Union
Study
15-07-2014
Europe faces major social challenges, in which fiscal consolidation may have played a role. This Policy Department A study aims to provide the Committee for Employment and Social Affairs with an analysis of the speed and composition of fiscal consolidation strategies. It describes major social developments in Europe, with a focus on poverty, and considers and interprets the links between fiscal consolidation measures and social developments.
Study
External author
Zsolt DARVAS, Pia HUETTL, Carlos DE SOUSA, Alessio TERZI and Olga TSCHEKASSIN (Bruegel)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- austerity policy
- budget
- economic analysis
- economic conditions
- economic geography
- economic policy
- economic recession
- ECONOMICS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- EU statistics
- Europe
- FINANCE
- fiscal policy
- GEOGRAPHY
- Greece
- national accounts
- pay policy
- personnel management and staff remuneration
- political geography
- poverty
- public expenditure
- social affairs
- social cost
- social framework
- social indicator
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- structural adjustment
- taxation
- unemployment