Bontout, Ol., Lokajickova, Ter., (2013), “Social protection budgets in the crisis in the EU”, DG for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion, Working Paper-01/2013.
The first working paper in the 2013 series reviews social protection expenditure developments in the crisis, focusing on expenditure trends in volumes following the peak of the crisis (2009), on changes in the distribution of incomes and, notably, on the distributional impact of austerity packages.