The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … quality, more inclusive to reduce the dropout rate, homogeneous to other EU countries to favour labour mobility, flexible to …

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU …

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … the EU. …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU …

domestic policy options but also by opening opportunities for EU-led social and employment coordination and agenda setting …

Walther's concept of 'youth transition regime' (2007), we have assessed the performance of selected EU countries belonging to …