This report sets out a detailed analysis of the specific weaknesses typical of women's working lives in Europe. In order to give an overview of the situation in all 27 EU Member States, eight countries have been selected in the light of the conclusions reached by the comparative literature on...

This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...