Improving the quality of women’s work and employment is the focus of this paper. It draws mainly, but not exclusively, on research carried out by the Foundation in this area over the past decade, which has highlighted both positive and negative change as well as persistent challenges faced by...

The Foundation carried out its Third European Working Conditions Survey in the 15 Member States of the EU in 2000. In 2001, the survey was extended to cover the 12 acceding and candidate countries and the following year the survey included Turkey. The aim was to provide an overview for EU...

The start of 2005 saw the Foundation begin its new four-year work programme Changing Europe: Better work, better life. This theme will guide the direction of Foundation research over the next four years: to provide reliable data on longterm trends and develop ideas, gleaned from experience, for...

This study aims to provide the necessary information to encourage sectoral social dialogue in the food and drink sector. The EIRO series of representativeness studies, carried out at the request of the European Commission, sets out to identify the representative social partner associations to be...

The term 'cyberbulling' has been used to describe aggressive conducts carried out through information and communication technologies (ICT), and can involve picture/video clips, emails, or social network sites, among others. Cyberbullying in the world of work is a relatively recent and unexplored...

Economists have paid very little attention to the role of working conditions in sickness absence. Yet, bad working conditions are a potential determinant of labour supply, either directly or through their impact on health. This study tries to shed some light on this issue. To begin with, we...

We try to quantify the effect of working conditions on retirement behaviour by estimating an implicit cost of keeping on working in a bad job. The cost is measured by the amount of the increase in retirement pension that the employee would claim to accept to postpone the date on which he intends...