European Commission Bureau of European Policy Advisers and Joint Research Centre

Social performance for the EU BEPA-JRC 1

European Commission

Bureau of European Policy Advisers and

Joint Research Centre

Marcel Canoy, Frédéric Lerais, Massimiliano Mascherini, Andrea Saltelli, Daniele Vidoni

The importance of social reality for Europe- an application to civil participation


Happiness indicators (Eurobarometer)

Apparent happiness throughout Europe


Objective indicators

Health, longevity Education Employment Poverty


Good social outcomes

Longer life expectancy from 43.5 to 75.4 for men; from 46.0 to 81.4 for women

Access to educational opportunities Upper secondary:

from 57% of the 50-54 year olds to 77% of 20-24 year olds


Old times/new times


Paradigm shifts in the debate

Old Disjoint social and economic pillars Social models based on male breadwinners Subsidiarity

New Social performance input to economic

performance Disappointing social performance, new social

risks, trends aggravate Shared responsibilities


Social performance input to economic performance

New challenges for growth require social performance as input Labour participation Quality of education Creation of social capital Innovation


Social performance

Bad news in key areas child poverty education (tertiary, dropouts) fertility obesity, alcoholism and mental illness two tier labour markets prospects for low skilled men rise of consumer debt social exclusion integration of migrants low participation in traditional politics


Children’s well-being (Unicef)Rate of poverty

Child poverty rate 2005 and changes in the nineties


Education (Eurostat, DG EAC)Share of Early School Leavers by Gender

Females


Youth Unemployment rate (Eurostat)


Shared responsibilities

All stakeholders important, including non-profit organizations

But not for the ‘usual’ reasons Coherence across policy fields and

layers needed


Citizenship indicators (source JRC report)

Heterogeneity of participation in Europe


Distribution of engagement in EuropeJRC and European Social Survey 2002

No engagement

Full engagement


o Different modes of social participation in Europeo Different impact of income and gender

o The countries that do well are also country where participation is high

• Nordic countries for instance

o Participation is needed for the acceptance and development of modern social policies

Participation for the future of Europe


o In many areas there is need for a bigger role of stakeholders

• When countries register high level of participation, they also have confidence in policies;

• Measures regarding health as an example;

Participation for the future of Europe


o Engagement correlated with trusto Participating people perceive world more

positively• The greater the participation the higher the trust in

others;• Trust in politicians is related to engagement;• Fully engaged more satisfied with democracy

o Trust diverges wildly across Europe

Importance of trust


Trust and engagementJRC and European Social Survey 2002

Trust in Politicians

0,00

1,00

2,00

3,00

4,00

5,00

6,00

Nordics Continental and Anglosaxons Mediterraneans Easterns

Av

era

ge No Engaged

Socially Engaged

Privately Engaged

Fully Engaged


Conclusion


WebsitesTo know more

Site of BEPAhttp://ec.europa.eu/dgs/policy_advisers/index_en.htm

Site of CRELLhttp://crell.jrc.ec.europa.eu


EU event

Site of the conference: Beyond GDP (November)

http://www.beyond-gdp.eu/

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