#labormarket

[…] By Justine Doody Since the Great Recession, the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union have returned to growth; investment and trade are [...]

[…] The labor markets in many EU countries are not sufficiently mobile or flexible to tap their full potential for new, stable jobs after the end of the economic crisis. This is shown in a study by the [...]

[…] Future Social Market Economy Policy Brief Fixed-term contracts are regarded as an instrument for increasing labor market flexibility. However, European countries differ significantly in the prevalence [...]

[…] Future Social Market Economy Policy Brief Fixed-term contracts are regarded as an instrument for increasing labor market flexibility. However, European countries differ significantly in the prevalence [...]

[…] The German labor market is currently quite healthy. However, given the presence of cyclical uncertainties, ongoing processes of change and persistent structural problems, Germany’s positive indicators [...]

[…] Labor market reforms can bring down governments. In almost no other policy field are legislative amendments so contentiously debated. This can currently be observed in France. Other EU countries, too, [...]

[…] Policy Brief Series Future Social Market Economy An increasing number of low-skilled workers in Germany are employed, but they often earn low wages and are subject to precarious employment conditions. [...]

[…] One of the major events of 2015 was the historic influx of migrants to Europe. Last year, 1.1 million refugees were officially registered in Germany, with more continuing to arrive in 2016. [...]

[…] Long-term unemployment has become a fundamental problem for the European labor market since the financial and economic crisis. Of the 22 million unemployed workers in 2015, nearly half had been [...]

[…] Despite a need for measures to ameliorate the impact of the labour market crisis, Spain is among the EU countries to have introduced the least number of improvements in recent years. On top of that, [...]