Labour market slack is the shortfall between the volume of work desired by workers and the actual volume of work available. The most important indicator of labour slack is the unemployment rate, but an exclusive focus on this fails to take account of the four-fifths of the jobless population who...

Labour market slack is the shortfall between the volume of work desired by workers and the actual volume of work available. The most important indicator of labour slack is the unemployment rate, but an exclusive focus on this fails to take account of the four-fifths of the jobless population who...

This report addresses growing concerns about income inequalities in academic and policy debates by offering a comprehensive study of income inequalities during the years of the Great Recession starting in 2008-2009 (income data relating to 2004-2013). It has the twofold objective of adopting an...

While the youth labour market has improved considerably since 2014, one legacy of the recent economic crisis is the large cohort of long-term unemployed young people, which represents nearly one-third of jobless young people. This report provides an updated profile of the youth labour market in...

This report examines recent trends and aspects of the labour market situation in relation to non-standard work. The findings show that while both temporary contracts and self-employment grew - quite considerably in some Member States - during the long economic boom from the mid-1990s up to the...

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...

In the rapidly changing world of work, the traditional dichotomy of employee and self-employed is insufficient to capture the wide diversity of self-employed workers in Europe today. This report identifies five categories of self-employed, reflecting the wide-ranging attitudes, income levels,...

In the rapidly changing world of work, the traditional dichotomy of employee and self-employed is insufficient to capture the wide diversity of self-employed workers in Europe today. This report identifies five categories of self-employed, reflecting the wide-ranging attitudes, income levels,...

The 'working poor' are a substantial group, the latest estimate putting 10% of European workers at risk of poverty, up from 8% in 2007. This report describes the development of in-work poverty in the EU since the crisis of 2008, picking up where an earlier Eurofound report on this subject,...