Books & Reports

This paper aims to unpack the implications and transmission of migration-related uncertainties on European migration governance. We specifically address what effect uncertainty has on migration-related policy responses, as well as who assesses and communicates what kind of migration-related uncertainty.

This policy briefing describes Ukrainians’ perspectives of depopulation collected using online focus groups in July 2021, seven months before the current invasion. Discussions were compared from eastern Ukraine, including in rural villages, the city of Mariupol, the large city of Kharkiv and occupied Donetsk. Participants observed that cities were growing at the expense of rural areas.

The 2023 report on gender equality in the EU is the third report under the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025. The report takes stock of where the EU and its Member States stand on gender equality. It highlights the EU’s achievements in the five key areas covered by the strategy and gives inspiring examples from the Member States and EU-funded projects in these areas.

This report analyses the effect of the Russian Invasion on the longer-term future of Ukraine’s population size and structure. The qualitative scenarios spanning a range of possible migration futures are translated into quantitative population projections using a multistate population model which shows the evolution of the size and age-sex composition of Ukraine’s population up to 2052.

Featuring contributions from leading international scholars of social policy, this dynamic Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of conceptual and methodological developments in leave policy research, as well as state-of-the-art findings on leave policy determinants and outcomes globally.

This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support.

The development of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) has attracted increased attention of both researchers and the wider public. This report summarizes research on MAR and examines the main drivers behind its development, as well as the different contexts in which it takes place, and the main socioeconomic variables underlying variations in access and usage.

The COVID-19 pandemic had varying impacts on social groups, depending on existing disadvantages, and it was widely believed that it triggered a rise in inequalities across different areas of life. Using indicators from the EU’s Multidimensional Inequality Monitoring Framework (MIMF), this report shows how inequality in the spheres of income, health, employment and education changed between 2010 and 2020.

Yang Li investigates three intersecting environmental dimensions on late-life walking: built structures, social infrastructure, and social capital, conceptually basing it on the ecological framework of place within a life course perspective.