Fotis Papadopoulos

• Athens University of Economics and Business

Introduction: Since the late 1980s, in the political discourses of several European countries the term ‘poverty’ has been gradually substituted primarily by the term ‘social exclusion’ and, to a lesser extent, by the terms ‘social disintegration’ and ‘social marginalisation’. Comprehensive definitions of ‘social exclusion’ used in the academic lite...

The share of social transfers in GDP has risen almost steadily in recent decades in most European countries. Further, in recent years, in the public discourse of many EU countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion". The fight against social exclusion features prominently among the social policy objectives of mos...

This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a set of common illustrative reforms for four countries selected on the basis of their diverse pension systems and patterns of poverty among the elderly...

There has been a shift in the public discourse of many EU countries from `poverty' to `social exclusion'. This article treats chronic cumulative disadvantage as a proxy for `social exclusion' and provides an empirical application using data from the ECHP. Social exclusion appears to be more widespread in Southern European countries with relatively...

In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion". Broadly interpreted, "social exclusion" implies the "inability of an individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functionings of the society in which she/he lives". In practice, there...

Introduction During the 1990s in a number of developed countries and international organisations, particularly in the EU, there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion", a term first introduced in the 1970s by French social scientists. Although, broadly interpreted, the term implies the "inability of an individual to partic...