This report gives an overview of the household services sector in the European Union, showing how the transformation of unpaid work traditionally carried out in the home is increasingly seen by policy makers as having potential for job creation. It looks at the current experiences of paid...

Providing jobs for all sections of the labour force is a challenge in the European Union today. Increased labour market participation is seen as the key element in achieving an inclusive European society for all. This report investigates the working patterns and preferences of people over the...

Over the past decade, social public services have been subject t o widespread reform and modernisation. Policy development has been in the area of costs, more coordinated provision and responsiveness t o user needs. At both national and EU levels, the importance of these services has been...

There is increasing interest in the financial participation of employees in their enterprises within the European Union. The PEPPER II report of the European Commission, published in 1996, concluded that there is more diversity than unity in the use of financial participation schemes across the...