This paper identifies four roles of contemporary European Employers’ Organisations. European Employers’ Organisations are lobbyists in Brussels that represent the interests of their members, seeking to influence institutions. European Employers’ Organisations are reluctant social partners...

This Handbook presents profiles of European Employers` Organisations (EEOs). The profiles provide general information on each organisation and detail how EEOs represent their member interests in the areas of employment relations, work, labour, and social policy in the European Union. This...

Even though trade negotiations have increasingly come to focus on regulatory issues, the full impacts, that is, both social costs and benefits of regulatory changes, often remain unexamined in trade impact assessments. To bridge this gap, we scrutinize the theoretical foundations, methodologies...

Can consumers trust that the food they buy in the supermarket, even if imported, is not harmful to their health? What would be the consequences if their trust in existing health and safety standards were to be undermined by recognizing lower foreign standards? Against the backdrop of public...

Automated decision-making (ADM) systems in the workplace aggravate the power imbalance between employees and employers by making potentially crucial decisions about employees. Current approaches focus on risk mitigation to safeguard employee interests. While limiting risks remains important,...

Functional specialisation in global value chains is a complex phenomenon. This paper examines the determinants of functional specialisation patterns in EU countries, focusing on the business functions fabrication and research and development. The core result of the study is that lower wages...

Specialisation in value-chain functions is one of the new phenomena introduced by global value chains and holds great potential for productivity gains. The advantages of global value chain integration, however, could be potentially countered by unfavourable functional specialisation. This study...

The cross-border exchange of social security data in the case of postings requires reforms both in European social security coordination law and at national level. Digitalised and simplified procedures employing modern technologies, improvements around the PD A1, better identification of the...