Books & Reports

In this multidisciplinary special issue compiled and edited by Abigail E. Page, Emily H. Emmott and Sarah Myers, they explore social support from different perspectives.

Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer and Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan (NIDI), this open-access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes.

Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel and Anna Wanka contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people.

Rosita Fibbi, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen and Patrick Simon provide a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with a particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants.

Demographic Outlook for the European Union 2021 by Monika Kiss focuses on poverty as a global, EU-wide and regional phenomenon, and examines how poverty interacts with demographic indicators (such as fertility and migration rates) or with factors such as the degree of urbanisation.

This working paper by Sophie Riding, Olivier Thévenon, Willem Adema and Gráinne Dirwan provides an overview of the nature and key priorities of family support services operating in OECD countries to inform on the factors that contribute to their quality and delivery effectiveness.

This joint publication by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels, the Vienna Institute of Demography, the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and the Federal Institute for Population Research looks at the latest demographic research relating to the COVID pandemic.

To answer the question 'how well do publicly available statistics on international migration for European countries, more in particular statistics on international migration from national statistical agencies, reflect the true migration flows?' Nico Keilman and Georgios Aristotelous eliciting expert opinions on measurement accuracy and undercount.

Drawing on a wide range of multi-disciplinary published materials and official statistics, research articles, reports, briefings and academic debates, as well as media headlines and commentary, this briefing by Linda Hantrais (International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science) assesses policy learning during the first wave of the pandemic in Europe

In a document that sets out the lessons that must be learnt from Covid-19, the RSS has made ten recommendations for how statistics and data could be better used in future crises.