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.

Junge Menschen in Europa haben weiterhin große Schwierigkeiten beim Eintritt in den Arbeitsmarkt. Obwohl die Jugendarbeitslosenquote in einigen Mitgliedstaaten allmählich zurückgeht, konnten insgesamt 23 % der jungen Arbeitssuchenden in Europa im Alter zwischen 15 und 24 Jahren in der EU28 im...

Young people in Europe continue to experience great difficulties in entering the labour market. Although the youth unemployment rate in a few Member States has started to fall, overall 23% of young European job-seekers aged 15–24 could not find a job in January 2014. In 2012, 14.6 million...

Job quality indexes are constructed on the basis of such aspects of working conditions as earnings, prospects, working time, and intrinsic job quality (which includes skills, autonomy, the social environment, physical risks and work intensity). Occupations where job quality is consistently low...

Job quality indexes are constructed on the basis of such aspects of working conditions as earnings, prospects, working time, and intrinsic job quality. Occupations where job quality is consistently low are labelled ‘occupations with multiple disadvantages’. This report uses data from the...

Poverty increases were recorded mostly in terms of severe material deprivation and low work intensity rates starting from 2010 and were concentrated in those countries most severely hit by the crisis. Econometric estimates suggest that while measures of relative poverty do not appear to have...

The Brief investigates the role of policy uncertainty in explaining the persistently high unemployment rate in the euro area after the Great Recession and the different impact of uncertainty on flows into and out of unemployment.

The transition from school to work is a crucial phase in the lives of young people that has lasting effects on their entire life courses. In recent years, labour market uncertainty and comparatively high unemployment rates have been major challenges for young people leaving the educational...