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Discover a wealth of insights on key topics shaping Europe's social and economic landscape. Eurofound’s publications offer in-depth reports, analyses, and policy briefs covering labor markets, living conditions, and workplace developments across the EU. Explore the latest findings to inform decisions and drive positive change.

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17 December 2025

Foundational challenges: The housing struggles of Europe’s youth

Europe faces a housing affordability crisis that impacts all age groups, with particularly pronounced implications for young people. For them, the crisis may have far-reaching consequences, affecting educational and employment opportunities, household composition and formation, and current and future well-being. This report examines the housing situation of the EU population, with a specific focus on young people. It shows that, across several metrics, young people generally experience the housing crisis more acutely than older cohorts.

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15 January 2026

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Collective bargaining as a mechanism to advance gender pay equity

The social partners can help companies apply the equal pay principle by ensuring that the pay scales in sectoral collective agreements are based on objective and gender-neutral criteria.

15 January 2026

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Quality of life in the Western Balkans and Türkiye in 2024

This factsheet presents findings from the Living and Working in the Western Balkans and Türkiye (LW-WBT) Survey, which was commissioned by Eurofound and conducted in autumn 2024. It provides a brief overview of four dimensions of quality of life in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Türkiye – health and well-being, overall life satisfaction, material living conditions and perceived quality of society.

19 December 2025

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Collective bargaining beyond pay: An analysis of collective agreements in selected low-paid sectors

This report analyses and compares the content of 94 collective agreements in three low-paid sectors – manufacture of food, leather, textiles and clothes; residential and social care; and retail – across 11 EU Member States and Norway. The report examines how collective bargaining regulates working conditions beyond wages and how these topics have evolved between 2015 and 2022.

17 December 2025

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Foundational challenges: The housing struggles of Europe’s youth

15 December 2025

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Beyond the twin transitions: Measuring EU Member States’ multidimensional performance with composite indicators

This research report presents a holistic, multidimensional framework for measuring the economic and social performance of EU Member States, including in terms of their EU’s green and digital twin transitions, through composite indicators. Extending the established Landesmann and Székely model, this study incorporates six key dimensions – economic, social, institutional, environmental, digital, and social cohesion and trust – into the model to capture the complex, interdependent dynamics of socioecological progress.

15 December 2025

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Equal value, equal pay: Concepts, mechanisms and implementation towards gender pay equity

This report presents an in-depth compilation of evidence and analysis on how the EU’s principle of equal pay for the same work and work of equal value can be implemented in practice, with a particular focus on work of equal value – thus, pay equity. According to this principle, when two jobs can be regarded as equivalent in terms of skills, effort, responsibilities and working conditions, they should be remunerated equally. But how can such equivalence be established?

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