Publications

Young people and long-term unemployed – Remaining challenges in the labour market

• 17 April 2018

Young people and long-term unemployed – Remaining challenges in the labour market

Informal Meeting of Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) - Employment & Social Policy, 17-18 April 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria

Presentation by Juan Menéndez-Valdés, Director, Eurofound

• Menéndez-Valdés, Juan

Long-term unemployed youth: The legacy of the crisis

• 17 April 2018

In this blog, originally posted in Social Europe, Massimiliano Mascherini looks at the enduring issue of long-term unemployment among young people. Despite considerable improvement in the labour market participation of youth in recent years, the legacy of the crisis is still visible in the substantial increase in the cohort of long-term unemployed young people.

• Mascherini, Massimiliano Inclusive labour markets, NEETs, Social policies, Unemployment, Youth

Game changing technologies: Exploring the impact on production processes and work

• 05 April 2018

This overview report summarises the findings of five case studies on the likely impact of game changing technologies on production and employment in the manufacturing sector in Europe up to 2025: advanced industrial robotics; industrial internet of things; additive manufacturing; electric vehicles; and industrial biotechnology.

• Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Hurley, John; Peruffo, Eleonora; Storrie, Donald; Poel, Martijn; Packalén, Elisabeth Digital age, Industrial policy, Structural change

Industrial democracy still in vogue

• 28 March 2018

The workings of industrial relations are constantly evolving. Eurofound has developed a tool to enable this process of change to be monitored and analysed, enabling stakeholders in Member States to assess the functioning of industrial relations within their country and to compare it with others.

• Welz, Christian; Rodriguez Contreras, Ricardo Industrial relations, Job quality, Social dialogue

Task profiles development in response to future jobs needs

• 27 March 2018

Task profiles development in response to future job needs
EMCO meeting, 22 March 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria
Presentation by Martina Bisello, Research Officer, Eurofound

• Bisello, Martina Labour market change, Monitoring structural change and managing restructuring

Discrimination against men at work: Experiences in five countries

• 27 March 2018

While discrimination against women at work has long been a mainstream topic in research literature, only marginal attention has been paid to discrimination against men. A number of factors may be responsible for this, including change in traditional occupational roles, cultural perceptions of the ‘natures’ of men and women, and men’s own perception (or lack of perception) of discrimination. This short report investigates whether men face discrimination based on sex in the workplace.

• Fric, Karel; Galli da Bino, Camilla EurWORK Discrimination at work, Gender equality, Industrial relations, Inequality, Work-life balance, Working conditions

Salary-setting mechanisms across the EU

• 27 March 2018

Eurofound has a considerable body of research findings looking at how salary levels are set in EU Member States. This report looks at the mechanisms used to determine statutory minimum wages, the use of variable pay schemes in companies in the EU, and national systems of supplementary pay.

• Gerstenberger, Barbara EurWORK Pay and income

Migrants in European labour markets are persistently disadvantaged by region of origin

• 15 March 2018

The classic theory on how migrants and their descendants assimilate into a host society argues that integration is a linear process as successive generations gradually come to resemble the native population. This was the dominant theory up to the 1990s; in recent decades, alternative theories have proposed more complex processes of adaptation to explain why some ethnic minorities integrate better than others.

• Fernández-Macías, Enrique; Paniagua de la Iglesia, Tania Inclusive labour markets, Labour market change, Migration and mobility

Access to and quality of public services in the EU

• 08 March 2018

Access to and quality of public services in the EU: A debate on improving quality of life
Presentation by Tadas Leončikas, Senior Research Manager, Eurofound

• Leončikas, Tadas

Quality of life in Germany is more than just making ends meet

• 07 March 2018

Discussions on Germany at European level invariably focus on the country’s strong economic performance and how this relates to the labour market and broader society. This is a narrative I have myself contributed to in a previous blog piece. However, Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) 2016 shows us that, when it comes to Germany  - and a number of other developed western European countries -  perceptions of quality of society  are increasingly divorced from economic performance. Indeed while many indicators continue, as one might expect, to reflect the country’s positions as an economic powerhouse, there are serious signs of growing concerns  in other indicators such as perceived tensions between racial and ethnic groups and also between religious groups. 

• Mezger, Erika Quality of life and public services