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 …

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. …

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 …

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

participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies we are able to capture both entry and exit effects … mandatory activation of welfare receivers reduce overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that …

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … participation; (iii) subsidised employment seems to cause displacement of regular employment, whereas this appears not to be the …) in the 1990s, training programmes seem not to have enhanced the employment probabilities of participants, whereas some …

This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … non-negligible employment effects (except for teenagers during 1993–98). The evidence regarding decreasing minimum wages …