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This document, provided by Policy Department A for the Employment and Social Affairs Committee, presents key findings of the study examine the employment situation of parents with young children in the EU and specifically, the factors that affect parents’ return to the labour market.

Cette étude, commandée par le département thématique des droits des citoyens et des affaires constitutionnelles du Parlement européen, à la demande de la commission FEMM, décrit l’évolution de la situation des parents isolés dans l’Union européenne (en s’appuyant également sur des données islandaises et norvégiennes). Elle analyse les ressources et la situation professionnelle de ces personnes, ainsi que les politiques sociales les concernant, et formule des recommandations pour améliorer leur situation ...

Families in the European Union (EU) were hit hard by the financial and economic crisis of 2008, which, together with its after-effects, also triggered a social crisis. If measureable changes in family patterns and the breakdown of families may not be immediately observable and directly related to the downturn, the knock-on effects of the economic and financial crisis on families are far more apparent. Throughout the EU, single-parent families (16 % of all families) are exposed to the highest risk ...

'Vulnerable social groups' are groups of people considered to be at risk of poverty or social exclusion because of physical disabilities, age factors, ethnic origins, lack of housing, or substance abuse. These people, who were already struggling with financial, social and employment difficulties before the 2008 economic crisis, have become further disadvantaged, and the gap between them and the rest of society has grown even wider. Three subgroups stand out as being most affected by the European ...

Cette étude analyse les difficultés spécifiques rencontrées par les femmes de plus de 25 ans vivant seules (divisées en trois groupes: femmes célibataires, mères célibataires et femmes âgées) dans les pays européens. Elle met en évidence les différences nationales au niveau de l’incidence des femmes vivant seules et de leurs principales caractéristiques et elle présente les politiques adoptées par les différents pays pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie et leurs revenus, notamment les dispositions ...

This note aims at defining the main risk factors of poverty for women in the European Union and at identifying the groups that are particularly at risk. It has to be underlined that some data are not available for the new Member States