This report explores the involvement of peak social partners in the European Semester at EU and national level during the period 2011 to 2014. While their role in the European Semester is not set out in the European economic governance provisions (the so-called 'Six-Pack'), the European...

This report explores the involvement of peak social partners in the European Semester at EU and national level during the period 2011 to 2014. While their role in the European Semester is not set out in the European economic governance provisions (the so-called 'Six-Pack'), the European...

The latest European Semester cycle, covering the period 2016-2017, has highlighted a range of issues regarding the quality of involvement by the social partners in the elaboration of the 2017 national reform programme (NRP), as well as in the implementation of the country-specific...

This report provides an update on the role of national social partners in the European semester process over the period 2015-2016, describing the main developments and changes compared with a previous Eurofound study on their involvement during the period 2011-2014. It examines the social...

This report provides an update on the role of national social partners in the European semester process over the period 2015-2016, describing the main developments and changes compared with a previous Eurofound study on their involvement during the period 2011-2014. It examines the social...

Eurofound’s fifth annual yearbook, Living and working in Europe, based on the Agency’s research from 2013, describes developments in the EU in the wake of the crisis, focusing on major topic areas including changes in labour markets and employment, efforts to tackle youth unemployment,...

European labour markets added nearly 30 million new jobs in a golden age of employment creation prior to the onset of the Great Recession in 2008. These labour markets subsequently shed six million jobs, and unemployment peaked at 11% in 2013, its highest rate in well over a decade. This third...