Study to analyse and assess the impacts of options of a possible EU initiative related to the access to social protection and employment services for people in all forms of employment

The research is commissioned as part of analysis concerning the proposal for a Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. It provides a detailed study of existing gaps in social protection for non-standard and self-employed workers in the European Union. In particular, a first strand or research reviews existing national laws and literature findings to assess how social protection systems fare for the selected categories of workers in terms of formal and effective coverage, transparency  and transferability of benefits in: Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, and Slovakia. A second strand completes the assessment by means of data analysis and of micro-simulations using EUROMOD to estimate the fiscal and distributional impact of possible policy options meant to extend social protection.