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 …

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We … results point to a negative effect of downward wage rigidities on employment at the firm level …

This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …

develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …