The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

Despite significant measures to reinforce the EMU's institutional set-up, there is widespread consensus that more needs to be done in order to better deal with cyclical and structural heterogeneity in the EU. Market-based adjustment mechanisms are necessary but not sufficient to advance...

Die Europäische Kommission hat ein Beschäftigungspaket vorgestellt, das die Erwerbstätigkeit in der EU verbessern und erhöhen soll, aber auch einen Ausweg aus der Krise darstellen könnte. Eine Umsetzung erscheint unrealistisch vor allem, weil die Arbeitsmärkte in der EU stark differieren,...