In the following blog piece, an update from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor, Eurofound's EU-level network correspondent Andrea Broughton describes the troubled recent history and uncertain future of the Italian airline Alitalia.
The next few months will determine...
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18 July 2017NewsThere were close to 23 million unemployed people of working age in the EU in 2015 but around 50 million people in a broader category of labour slack, encompassing inactive people wishing to work and underemployed, involuntary part-timers as well as the unemployed, according... -
17 July 2017NewsThere was previously a significant increase in the temporary employment rate, particularly since the late 1980s. This occurred, for example, in France and Spain between 1985 and 1995, Sweden in the early 1990s and Germany in the early 2000s. More recently, the large increase in Poland was... -
13 July 2017NewsFor decades there was little doubt about the European Union’s success in the balanced acceleration of standards of living among the Member States. Since 2008, this upward convergence has stalled. The Foundation Forum 2017 will bring together up to 200 experts, policymakers, employer and... -
05 July 2017NewsThe Great Recession has had significant and lasting effects on European labour markets, with a big drop in employment levels, which are yet to recover in many countries almost a decade later. It also affected the employment structure, accelerating structural change and generalising a pattern of job... -
29 June 2017NewsThe EU’s population and workforce are ageing. This has implications for employment, working conditions, living standards and welfare. How should we respond to these challenges? A new report, coordinated by EU-OSHA, shows how information from four agencies can support policy-making that... -
27 June 2017NewsEmployment in the EU has returned to the same level as before the global financial crisis: the recovery that began in 2013 has resulted in the net creation of eight million new jobs, with most of this new employment being created in services, as well as a significant increase in the manufacturing... -
23 June 2017NewsIn the follow blog piece, originally posted on Social Europe, Carlos Vacas-Soriano and Enrique Fernández-Macías look at evolution of household disposable real income levels over the period 2004-2013, and the broader phenomenon on Europe's shrinking middle class. The Great Recession... -
21 June 2017Photo galleryPhotographs taken during the Experts workshop on monitoring convergence in the European Union organised by Eurofound in Dublin on 13-14 June 2017. -
20 June 2017NewsOn the occasion of Word Refugee Day, Eurofound Research Manager Kára Fóti looks at the difficulties that refugees and asylum-seekers face in finding work and opportunities in Europe. The refugee crisis has posed significant challenges for Europe – we have not seen such a large-scale...
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