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This report considers the impact of telework/ICT-mobile work (T/ICTM) on the world of work. T/ICTM can be defined as the use of ICT – such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers – for the purposes of work outside the employer’s premises.

The 2016 European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) report provides evidence of the employment impact of recent restructuring activity in Europe, based on the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and the ERM events database.

Labour taxes make up a substantial share of overall labour costs in all developed countries. Reducing taxes on labour, in particular on the employer side, could be one way of inducing employers to hire more workers or to retain staff that might otherwise have been let go.

This study aims to provide the necessary information to encourage sectoral social dialogue in the shipbuilding sector. Eurofound’s series of representativeness studies, carried out at the request of the European Commission, sets out to identify the relevant social partner organisations to be consulted under the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

This report examines the role and contribution of the private provision of hospital services (both for-profit and non-profit) in the European Union, with a focus on medical services.

In the 1990s, Alan Greenspan talked of ‘irrational exuberance’ in the stock markets. Unfounded optimism had driven share prices up to values that no rational analysis of company or country performance could justify. At the end of 2016, the Financial Times marked the end of the year by talking of ‘irrational equanimity’.

This issue contains articles on: Findings in figures; Sixth EWCS report launched in Brussels; Tackling fraudulent practices in employment; News in brief; and Latest from EurWORK.

This study aims to provide the necessary information to encourage sectoral social dialogue in the sugar manufacturing sector. Eurofound’s series of representativeness studies, carried out at the request of the European Commission, sets out to identify the relevant social partner organisations to be consulted under the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

This report examines the merits of reviewing workers’ career status in mid-career and the options they have in order to stay in work longer. It presents literature from economics, social science and psychology regarding career and vocational counselling.

This issue of Foundation Focus looks at work–life balance and some of the factors that help or hinder workers in combining working with non-working life.