Unemployment

In September 2000, the Institute of Labour of Greece's GSEE and the ADEDY trade union confederations issued its second Annual economic and employment outlook. The report's basic conclusions are that: increases in wages and demand have had positive effects on production and employment; the principal

In statements made following the Greek general election in April 2000, the Minister of Labour recognised the importance of economic growth in increasing employment, contrasting with the Ministry's former position that the Greek economy was going through a period of "jobless growth". In addition, the

On 16 May 2000, the National Institute for Social Research (Socialforskningsinstituttet, SFI) published its evaluation of a project entitled "Integration of immigrants on the labour market" run at the Kofoeds Skole centre in Copenhagen. Some 190 immigrants and refugees participated in the project

In February 2000, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health published a proposal for new measures to improve the position of long-term unemployed people who have difficulties in finding work, including a compulsory "rehabilitative employment" scheme, under threat of benefit cuts. Employers

The Portuguese Presidency of the EU organised an extraordinary European Council summit meeting [1], aimed at considering the European strategy for growth, competitiveness and employment in the light of globalisation, technological change and social exclusion, in Lisbon on 23-24 March 2000

In October 1999, the debate in Spain on increasing minimum pensions ended with an agreement between the government and the trade unions over the contents of the 2000 state Budget. However, there is still disagreement on benefit coverage for unemployed people.

A report entitled Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s [1] was presented on 29 June 1999. The study is based on two surveys, one conducted in 1991, the other in 1998, aiming to explore among managers from 157 companies in the Swedish manufacturing industry how a

The revised national Budget for 1999 was passed by the Norwegian parliament (Stortinget) on 18 June 1999. The annual procedure for revising the Budget enables the government to adjust its economic policy in the light of developments that have taken place since the release of the Budget in the autumn