Employment and labour markets
Employment and labour markets is one of Eurofound's main operational activities for its 2025–2028 programming period. Building on the past 50 years of research, Eurofound continues to provide knowledge to identify structural changes in the labour market and to inform employment policies to improve the functioning and inclusiveness of a rapidly changing labour market.
Research focus
Eurofound’s work is shaped by the opportunities and challenges arising from four mega-drivers: demographic change, climate change, technological change and re-globalisation. The research investigates labour market dynamics, company practices, restructuring and social partner involvement in addressing these changes to provide evidence to inform the understanding of the EU’s competitiveness and to reinforce socioeconomic resilience.
Eurofound continues to collect relevant evidence concerning labour market trends in the EU and its Member States by means of the European Jobs Monitor (EJM), the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) and the platform economy repository.
Events
Formal meeting of employment and social affairs ministers (EPSCO)
High-level conference – Equality in society
Informal meeting of Employment Committee (EMCO)
European Forum for New Ideas conference: ‘The future of work, the work of the future’
High-level conference – Ministerial conference on the Ministry’s presidency priority ‘Future of labour in a digital Europe’
All content
This list provides access to all Eurofound outputs published on this subject.
Eurofound experts
Tadas Leončikas
Head of UnitTadas Leončikas is Head of the Employment unit at Eurofound since September 2022. Prior to this, he was a senior research manager in the Social Policies unit, managing the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) and developing Eurofound's survey research. Since joining Eurofound in 2010, he has worked on various topics including survey methods, quality of life, social mobility, social inclusion, trust and housing inadequacies. In his earlier career, he headed up the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Lithuania where he worked on studies related to the situation of ethnic minorities, migrants and other vulnerable groups. As a researcher, he has previously collaborated with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Organization for Migration. He has a PhD in Sociology.
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John Hurley
Senior research managerJohn Hurley is a senior research manager in the Employment unit at Eurofound. He took up the role of research manager in February 2012. He contributes to a number of research projects including the European Jobs Monitor and has authored or co-authored over 20 reports as well as journal contributions and edited collections during his time at Eurofound. His main research interests are in the areas of comparative labour market analysis, restructuring and the changing world of work. John is a graduate of both Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.
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