Category: General

  Introduction    Labour Market Reform in Europe   Because of political constraints, the margin of manoeuvre for governments to combat unemployment with institutional reforms is typically quite narrow. Later we analyse...

 Introduction  Pay-setting Systems in Europe: Ongoing Developments and Possible Reforms   The performance of the labour markets – as well as macroeconomic performance in general – is intimately associated with the functioning of...

(1)  Introduction    Labour Markets Unemployment rates in 2004 vary between 4.5 percent in countries like Ireland and Austria and close to 10 percent in Germany, France and Spain. In some of the Eastern European countries, the...

  Introduction   Welfare to Work    In its first report, in 2002, the group presented a concrete model of how the welfare state could be reformed in order to tackle this important problem. It has been argued that traditional...