distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

The European Employment Strategy is the subject of controversial discussion. It is hard to find an economic … employment policies are almost negligible. In its latest communication, the European Commission fails to provide a masterplan for … employment policy responsibilities from the national to the EU level. But the EU labour market policy lacks appropriate …

is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … funds ; dynamic panel models ; spatial panel econometrics ; regional employment effects …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income … mounting scientific evidence that various forms of educational, employment and financial inequalities increase over time …

evidence on the impacts of labour market reforms, which seem to have a potential to address impediments towards employment …