Social Policy in the EU — Reform Barometer 2016. Bertelsmann Stiftung Social Inclusion Monitor Europe

Andersen, Torben M. and Busemeyer, Marius R. and Gerdtham, Ulf and Heitzmann, Karin and Steiner, Viktor (2017) Social Policy in the EU — Reform Barometer 2016. Bertelsmann Stiftung Social Inclusion Monitor Europe. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

The Social Inclusion Monitor Europe (SIM Europe) project invited social policy experts from across Europe to participate in the Reform Barometer 2016 survey and assess the reform need, activity and quality with respect to 55 policy objectives in the 28 member states of the European Union between July 2014 and January 2016. This report presents the analysis of the replies from over 1,000 survey participants in five dimensions: Poverty Prevention, Equitable Education, Labour Market Access, Social Cohesion and Non-discrimination, and Health.1 For each member state, the experts’ quantitative assessments have been aggregated to different levels of analysis, yielding a reform need score, an activity rate and a quality score at the levels of policy objectives and of dimensions as well as at the overall level. In addition, the reform performance score is a composite measure that captures each member state’s reform activity and quality using a single number. In what follows, we present a summary of the key findings.

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