The education system has reacted slowly to changes in labour market needs, leading to an increasing number of school leavers without sufficient qualification. In addition, declining PISA scores and a rising share of low achievers are raising concerns about the quality of the future labour force....

The development of informal work in the work-welfare arrangements of European societies / Per H. Jensen, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, and Lluis Flaquer -- The approach of the "arrangement of work and welfare" to the cross-national analysis of formal and informal work / Birgit Pfau-Effinger -- Formal...

Improving women's labor force participation and the quality of their employment can boost economic growth and support poverty and inequality reduction; thus, it is highly pertinent for the development agenda. However, most systematic reviews on female labor market outcomes and childcare, which...

Standard hours, a major component of total work hours, vary considerably across Europe. Many countries lowered their standard work hours during the 1980s and 1990s, attempting to boost employment by splitting up a fixed number of worker-hours among more workers. Germany has seen a partial...