European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population, youth unemployment and the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. These...

The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...

Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels gewinnt Zuwanderung als Teil einer gezielten Fachkräftesicherungspolitik zunehmend an Bedeutung. So können bereits heute viele inländische Unternehmen nicht alle ihre offenen Stellen mit einheimischen Fachkräften besetzen. Allerdings stellt sich...

Mit dem gesellschaftlichen Wandel hat die institutionelle Betreuung in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies hat auch zu einem starken Beschäftigungsaufbau in den einschlägigen Betreuungsberufen geführt. Allein in der Zeit zwischen Juni 2014 und 2018 ist die...

Die Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels auf die Entwicklung der Beschäftigung bleiben weiterhin diffus. Auf Unternehmensebene sind zur Zeit keine systematischen Effekte zu beobachten, die allgemeine Aussagen erlauben. Unternehmen 4.0 weisen zwar häufiger eine positive Beschäftigungsentwicklung...

This report is a synthesis of the previous literature analyzing the role of different types of companies on economic growth and employment, and an overlook on the impacts of different policy measures on companies. The role of large companies in the economy is still significant, although...

This paper introduces a model for forecasting changes in employment levels and structures by sectors, occupational categories and educational attainment levels which is then applied to the new EU member states (NMS) and Bulgaria and Romania. The model is based on the following ideas As these...

Relocation is a way of reducing costs, thus increasing competitiveness, by splitting production and services between countries. The main argument kindling the relocation debate suggests that moving abroad generates job losses in the home country, while production and job gains appear only in the...

This study considers the overall implications of changes in employment patterns for the nature of the jobs in which people are employed and for job quality, in particular for the EU member states over the period 1995-2005. Jobs, defined as a particular occupation in a particular industry, are...