entire life courses. In recent years, labour market uncertainty and comparatively high unemployment rates have been major … benefit more strongly than women from these factors. A stricter employment protection legislation results in a slower …

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …, even in the face of strong employment growth. …

[...] this report will show the value of the jobs approach in analysing the changing structure of employment in the two …

The report describes the impact of the ‘great recession’ on employment and the job structure in the EU27. Quintile … charts are used to give a simple, graphical representation of the extent of employment change in a given period as well as an …

trend rates. Unemployment notably continues to rise and its pace of increase has accelerated in the most recent quarter to … prospects; an overview of ERM statistics for October-December 2009; employment and restructuring outlook for 2010; collective …