This policy brief highlights findings on a specific topic from Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) that is of particular interest from a policy perspective. It brings results of the analysis of these data together with evidence from other Eurofound projects to formulate a number...

This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the textiles and clothing sector (NACE13 and 14). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of...

Chronic diseases are health problems requiring ongoing treatment for a period of years or decades, implying that these diseases are recurrent, long-lasting, persistent and cannot be cured. Though they may or may not be caused (or made worse) by work, chronic diseases can have a serious impact on...

In diesem Bericht wird die Rolle der Sozialpartner bei der Förderung der Gleichstellung der Geschlechter in Europa beleuchtet. Es werden die in den unterschiedlichen nationalen Rahmen der Arbeitsbeziehungen eingeleiteten Maßnahmen untersucht und das Ranking der Mitgliedstaaten beim...

Ziel dieser Studie ist die Bereitstellung der erforderlichen Informationen, um den sektoralen sozialen Dialog in der Holzindustrie zu fördern. Im Rahmen der von Eurofound durchgeführten Repräsentativitätsstudien sollen die einschlägigen nationalen und supranationalen...

This study aims to provide the necessary information to encourage sectoral social dialogue in the chemical sector. The goal of Eurofound’s series of representativeness studies is to identify the relevant national and supranational social partner organisations in the field of industrial...