{"id":2501,"date":"2015-03-05T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/improve-research.eu\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2015-03-05T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T13:24:46","slug":"improve-research-wins-intersentiafiss-best-paper-prize-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/improve\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"ImPRovE research wins Intersentia\/FISS Best Paper Prize 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of <a title=\"WP 13 \u2013 Reference budgets for social participation leading the way to a social inclusive society\" href=\"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/improve\/?page_id=174\" target=\"_blank\">work package 13<\/a>, six teams of ImPRovE researchers in Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Spain have developed for the first time reference budgets for adequate social participation that should be as much as possible comparable across countries. Recently, a paper describing the first results of this exercise has been awarded the\u00a0Intersentia\/FISS Best Paper Prize 2014. The paper has now been published in the European Journal of\u00a0Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Goedem\u00e9, T., Storms, B., Stockman, S., Penne, T., and Van den Bosch, K. (2015), \u2018<\/span><a style=\"color: #ef7f2c;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ejss.eu\/table_of_content.aspx?sy=2015&amp;pn=1\" target=\"_blank\">Towards Cross-country Comparable Reference Budgets in Europe: First Results of a Concerted Effort<\/a><span style=\"color: #666666;\">\u2018 in\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #666666;\">European Journal of Social Security (EJSS)<\/em><span style=\"color: #666666;\">, 17(1): 3-31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, reference budgets are increasingly recognised as a helpful tool for policy making and monitoring. If developed in a cross-country comparable way, reference budgets could, in addition, prove to be useful for cross-national learning and contextualising the EU social indicators. However, current reference budgets are not comparable across countries. In this article we report on the \u0001first results of a concerted e\u0002ffort to construct comparable reference budgets for adequate social participation in Antwerp, Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Helsinki and Milan. We start from a single theoretical and methodological framework and carefully track differences in institutional settings, climate, culture, and the availability and prices of goods and services that justify cross-country variations in the contents and levels of reference budgets. Results indicate that adequate social participation requires access to di\u0002fferent goods and services in the six cities, but that, at the same time, the needs to be ful\u0001filled are rather similar, such that\u00a0the variation in the level of reference budgets is less than what would be expected on the basis of di\u0002fferences in median household incomes. Results also show that constructing\u00a0comparable reference budgets requires substantial and intensive coordination. We suggest directions in which our approach to their construction could be improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of work package 13, six teams of ImPRovE researchers in Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, and Spain have developed for the first time reference budgets for adequate social participation that should be as much as possible comparable across countries. 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