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Investing in the Future of Jobs and Skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report Transport and Logistics

Davydenko, I.; Gijsbers, G.; Leis, M. - SEOR Erasmus University Rotterdam; Zentrum für Soziale …; … - 2009

The transport sector is one of the most important sectors for the European economy. Its importance stems not only from its size - which is estimated to be € 803 billion or 6.6% of European GDP in 2007 - but also from the fact that it plays a crucial role in connecting other economic actors...

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report Printing and Publishing

Gelderblom, A.; de Jong, GM.; Vroegop, J. - Nederlandse Organisatie voor …; … - 2009

Total employment in the printing, publishing, and recorded media industry in 2006 amounted to 1.91 million jobs, which … is equivalent to 0.87% of overall EU employment and 5.54% of EU manufacturing employment. The printing and publishing … sector is a fairly important sector in terms for employment for most regions across the EU. Employment is most concentrated …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Non-Metallic Materials

van der Zee, F.; Gijsbers, G.; Poliakov, E. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

natural resources (e.g. silica sand, clay, natural stone and rock) into marketable products. Overall employment in the EU in … the non-metallic materials sector amounted to 1.62 million people, which is 0.74% overall employment and 4.72% of overall … manufacturing employment in the EU. …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Furniture

Gijsbers, G.; van der Molen, S.; Llaudes, MJ - SEOR Erasmus University Rotterdam; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

Total employment for the sector aggregate Furniture and other industries amounted to 2,007,000 persons in 2006 in the … EU. Almost three-fourth of employment was concentrated in the furniture sector. The jewellery sector accounted for 6% of … total employment. Two-third of employment in furniture is still in the ‘old’ Member States, with Germany being ranked first …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs ; Sector Report - Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals,...

van der Zee, F.; Brandes, F.; Sanders, J. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien - 2009

The chemicals industry is a major contributor to the EU economy in terms of output, value-added, employment, and (net …

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Investing in the future of jobs and skills : Scenarios, implications and options in anticipation of future skills and knowledge needs Sector Report - Post and Telecommunications

Dijkgraaf, E.; van der Zee, F.; Gijsbers, G. - Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Wien; Nederlandse …; … - 2009

Post and telecoms were amongst the most changing sectors of the 1990s. Both sectors have now been privatised and opened up to competition following EU liberalisation law. The EU employed about 3.3 million post and telecoms workers in 2006. A large share of them, 83%, was working in the EU-15 and...

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Interactions between private and public sector wages

Afonso, António; Gomes, Pedro - European Central Bank - 2008

sector employment and wages on the labour market, particularly on private sector wages. Our empirical evidence shows that the … growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover …

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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges

Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - European Central Bank - 2008

The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...

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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area

Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - European Central Bank - 2008

worsens. Moreover, robust results across the regression scenarios show that higher employment protection and minimum wages … indicate that the increasing share of services employment in total employment is helping to reduce unemployment among young …

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What does European institutional integration tell us about trade integration?

Leiner-Killinger, Melanie; Madaschi, Christophe; … - European Central Bank - 2005

-time employment across many euro area countries, whilst increasing European employment rates, have contributed to the downward trend …

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