Eurocounsel is an action research programme focusing on ways to improve guidance and employment counselling services for the long-term unemployed, and those at risk of long-term unemployment. It has been based primarily on work in the ten local labour market areas in six Member States and detailed
Environmental economic instruments offer a means to monetize the basis of policy decisions while allowing industry and individuals to choose how to respond. This is a report of the conference on 'Environmental Economic Policies: Competitiveness and Employment', organised by the Foundation as part of
EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on
In this report, a complementary volume to Professor Frank Convery's Challenges for Urban Infrastructure in the EU, author George Cavallier takes as his starting point the main conclusions of UN Summit of Cities, Habitat II (1996) and sets out to explore the challenges posed to the cities of the EU
This reports analyses 386 agreements which had been signed when the Directive came into force on 22 September 1996, and Article 13 ceased as an option for the establishment of a European Works Council.
What is the extent of direct participation? To what degree can employees influence the organisation of work or control their working environment? What are the economic and social effects? In order to answer these and other questions the Foundation undertook a postal survey of European management
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has compiled a series of glossaries on industrial relations, labour markets and employment laws of the then 15 EC Member States. This volume deals with Luxembourg.
This brochure summarises the proceedings of a European conference which was held in the Hague in May 1997. The conference represented one of the first systematic attempts to explore the economics of occupational safety and health (OSH) at European, national and company levels. The participants were
EIRObserver is the bi-monthly bulletin of the European Industrial Relations Observatory. It contains an edited selection of feature and news items, based on some of the reports supplied for the EIROnline database over each two-month period. On top of this, EIRO also conducts comparative research on
This report summarizes a larger synthesis on the results of the Foundation reseearch on medium-sized cities at the core of which were case studies on 15 selected cities, mostly from the periphery of the European Union.