Job creation

1.7 million people work in electricty, gas and water. The waste sector has experienced high growth rates over the last decade which were especially policy driven. This report is published as part of a series of forward-looking sector studies on new skills and new jobs. While the main focus of the

The report examines the size of the two sectors (Machinery and equipment, and Electrical machinery and apparatus) in terms of their contribution to value-added and employment in EU Member States and the relative importance of the sub-sectors. It also considers the way that these have changed over

In 2007, 5.6 million persons were employed in EU27 financial services. 65% of these worked in banks, 20% in the insurance industry and 15% for intermediaries. The sector represented 2.7% of total employment in Europe. Between 2000 and 2006, data from the Labour Force Survey shows a shift of

The hotels and restaurants sector is a highly labour intensive service sector employing nearly nine million persons across the EU. A large part of the sector is closely linked to the dynamics of the tourism economy; in terms of turnover, the hotels and restaurant sector accounts for more than 70% of

For the purpose of this study, this report concentrates on the activities of Other personal services (NACE 93/96) and Activities of households as employer of domestic personnel (NACE 95/97). The employment in the EU in the other services industry totals about 14 million jobs. Ninety per cent of the

According to Eurostat’s estimates, the building and repairing of ships and boats sector comprised in 2006 a total of 20.500 enterprises that reported shipbuilding or repairing as their main activity, and provided employment to 296.000 people. The shipbuilding industry has experienced a radical

The European textiles, clothing and leather sector (TCL) lost 40% of its production volume and 40% of its jobs at the same time within a ten year period from 1996. It had to accept continuously rising import shares from low-cost countries – China in particular. The phasing out of the Agreement on

The distribution and trade sector (NACE 50, 51, 52) accounted for 6.2 million enterprises in EU-27 in 2004, employing over 30 million people. With the inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria, this number had grown to 33.3 million in 2006. Almost 81% of the jobs in the distribution and trade sector were