The Young and the Elderly at Risk: Individual Outcomes and Contemporary Policy Challenges in European Societies

The current retrenchment of the welfare states is buffering the growing demographic and economic pressures in European countries at the expense of the young and the elderly. This book encompasses a selection of empirical studies reflecting on when and why the young and the elderly are at risk in several (mostly Western) European countries.

Ioana Salagean holds a PhD in economics from the University of Nancy 2 in France and worked as Assistant Professor for M.Sc. IMPALLA. She currently works for Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the National Statistical Institute of Luxembourg (Statec) analyzing empirically poverty and living conditions in a national as well as a comparative perspective. Catalina Lomos obtained a PhD degree in Education from University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and she worked between 2011 and 2015 as an assistant professor in the International MSc in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA) and as a post-doctoral researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER, formerly CEPS/INSTEAD), G.D. Luxembourg. Since 2015 she continues her work as a researcher at LISER, her empirical focus being on student achievement within the framework of school effectiveness research, and on cross-cultural comparisons implying measurement invariance. In addition, since 2012, Catalina has been closely collaborating with the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth in Luxembourg, in different national projects. Anne Hartung is research associate at the IRSEI Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequalities, University of Luxembourg investigating stratification and inequalities and previously worked as Assistant Professor for the M.Sc. IMPALLA at the University of Leuven, Belgium and LISER, Luxembourg.