Based on data from Eurostat the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) regularly analyses the development of labour costs and unit labour costs in Europe. This report presents labour cost trends in the private sector, and disaggregated for private services and manufacturing industry, for a...

Das IMK analysiert regelmäßig mittels Daten von Eurostat die Entwicklung der Arbeitskosten und der Lohnstückkosten in Europa. In dieser aktuellen Auswertung wird zunächst die Entwicklung der Arbeitskosten in der Privatwirtschaft, dem privaten Dienstleistungssektor und dem Verarbeitenden...

There are few attempts to benchmark job quality in a multi-dimensional perspective across Europe. Against this background, we have created a synthetic job quality index (JQI) for the EU27 countries in an attempt to shed light on the question of how European countries compare with each other and...