The second Foundation paper focuses on improving access to employment, specifically for groups who are disadvantaged in the labour market.

Radical labour market reforms were implemented in Germany between 2002 and 2005, reforms that overturned the received idea that Germany was suffering from "reform paralysis". However, the part of these reforms that specifically concerned labour law was very small; their main purpose was to...

This fourth issue for 2007 includes: a summary of current macroeconomic trends and prospects; an overview of the ERM statistics for the fourth quarter of 2007; details of the global restructuring plan at Unilever; restructuring at ZRE Katowice and more on restructuring in Cyprus.

This study provides a background for the preparation of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPG) 2003 and assists the EP in putting forward recommendations in supply-side issues covered in the BEPGs. The report looks at investment, progress in opening markets, integration of financial...

This study poses the question about whether labour market institutions can explain unemployment rates in the ten new European Union member states. In five out of the ten new member states, unemployment rates lie above the average in the 15 member states of the European Union (EU-15) that...

Im Rahmen dieses Seminars wird der Bedarf an EU-Statistiken über die Migration von Arbeitskräften aus der Sicht der Nutzer (politische Entscheidungsträger, Wissenschaftler und die breite Öffentlichkeit) untersucht; darüber hinaus wird geprüft, wie die Produzenten diesen Bedarf decken...