Europe has begun to emerge from the prolonged slump caused by the global financial crisis in 2008 and exacerbated by the euro zone single-currency crisis in 2010-2011. In 2014-2015, aggregate employment levels rose faster than at any time since 2008: over four million new jobs were created in...

The Lisbon Strategy is based on making Europe a more competitive and dynamic economy, and creating better jobs. If these goals are to be achieved, Europe requires a skilled and adaptable labour force and a more open and accessible labour market. One way of facilitating this is to encourage...

The European Commission promotes geographical mobility as a strategy to reduce discrepancies between supply and demand in European labour markets. While migration levels are low within and across EU Member States by comparison with other OECD regions, the proportion of EU migrants working in the...

This report describes the findings of a study of change in job tenure between 2002 and 2012 in the EU. The study examined change in mean tenure as well as the distribution of short and long tenure in the EU and in individual Member States. It also looked at differences in tenure according to...