The Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe report provides an in-depth analysis of recent labour market and wage developments in the EU, the euro area and Member States, primarily from a macroeconomic perspective. This year's edition examines the recent performance of the EU labour market...

The Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe report provides an in-depth analysis of recent labour market and wage developments in the EU, the euro area and Member States, primarily from a macroeconomic perspective. This year's edition examines the recent performance of the EU labour market...

Almost two years after the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU economy is faring better than initially expected. GDP growth in 2022 reached 3.5 % in both the EU and the euro area, compared with initial forecasts of respectively 2.7 % (EU) and 2.3 % (euro area) in Spring...

Almost two years after the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU economy is faring better than initially expected. GDP growth in 2022 reached 3.5 % in both the EU and the euro area, compared with initial forecasts of respectively 2.7 % (EU) and 2.3 % (euro area) in Spring...

The study looks at the articulation and the complex multi-level links between European and national levels of social dialogue. It examines the factors that facilitate as well as those that hinder the successful engagement of national social partners and their ability to promote their own...

Employment policy in the European Semester : an introduction -- Theorizing the influence of the European Semester : mechanisms, conditions and policy change -- Croatia : cherry-picking from the European Semester -- Hungary : a case of neglect? -- Slovakia : reinforcing existing trajectories --...

The European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) provides financial support to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guarantee adequate and decent social protection, combat social exclusion and poverty and improve working conditions across the EU. It...

The European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) provides financial support to promote a high level of quality and sustainable employment, guarantee adequate and decent social protection, combat social exclusion and poverty, and improve working conditions across the EU....

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,...

During 2014 the EaSI (The EU programme for employment and social innovation) helped to generate evidence to make a significant contribution to EU policy initiatives launched in the field of employment and social affairs. It also supported policy coordination, the sharing of best practice,...

Der alarmierende Anstieg der Jugendarbeitslosigkeit infolge der jüngsten Wirtschaftskrise kann für die Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf nationaler und europäischer Ebene nicht ohne Folgen bleiben. Angesichts der Tatsache, dass in der EU über 5,5 Millionen junge Menschen Schwierigkeiten haben, einen...

The Social Europe guide is a bi-annual publication aimed at providing an interested but not necessarily specialised audience with a concise overview of specific areas of EU policy in the field of employment, social affairs and inclusion. It illustrates the key issues and challenges, explains...

The Social Europe guide is a bi-annual publication aimed at providing an interested but not necessarily specialised audience with a concise overview of specific areas of EU policy in the field of employment, social affairs and inclusion. It illustrates the key issues and challenges, explains...

The Social Europe guide is a bi-annual publication aimed at providing an interested but not necessarily specialised audience with a concise overview of specific areas of EU policy in the field of employment, social affairs and inclusion. It illustrates the key issues and challenges, explains...

The paper deals with the issue of promoting multi-level governance by the European Union, especially within coordinated policies. Using the example of employment policy in decentralized Spain, the authors are examining how the sub-national (i.e. regional and local) actors benefit thanks to the...

EaSI, the new pan-European programme for employment and social policy, will help the EU deliver more coherent policy, encourage job mobility and provide targeted microfinance to the more vulnerable. Merging Progress, Eures and Progress Microfinance into one umbrella programme, EaSI will help...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung des funktionalen Verhältnisses zwischen den einzelnen Governance-Formen des europäischen Beschäftigungsregimes zwischen 1997-2007. Es wird die Frage behandelt, wie sich das Verhältnis zwischen den separat in das Regime eingeführten...