Precarious employment in Europe has become an issue of policy concern. In a number of recent resolutions, the European Parliament says that in particular for young people the surplus of labour supply caused by the crisis has led to a decline in the quality of employment. Furthermore, it stresses...

Precarious employment in Europe has become an issue of policy concern. In a number of recent resolutions, the European Parliament says that in particular for young people the surplus of labour supply caused by the crisis has led to a decline in the quality of employment. Furthermore, it stresses...

This Policy Department A study prepared at request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee examines precarious employment, its patterns, trends and policy strategies in Europe. It explores the risk of precariousness of different types of contract, using information from EU data analysis...

This Policy Department A study prepared at request of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee examines precarious employment, its patterns, trends and policy strategies in Europe. It explores the risk of precariousness of different types of contract, using information from EU data analysis...

Europäische Sozialpolitik befindet sich in einem doppelten Spannungsverhältnis: Auf der einen Seite geht es um die Beziehung zwischen den Marktfreiheiten des Binnenmarktes und dem sozialen Schutz. Auf der anderen Seite wird die Verteilung der Regulierungskompetenzen zwischen der europäischen...

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is...

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 member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...