The objective of this study is to map and analyse recent measures and activities implemented by the Public Employment Services (PES) from the EU-27 Member States, Norway and Iceland to mitigate the Covid-19 crisis and to prepare for the recovery of the labour market. This study explores how PES ...
Developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have been among the key drivers of change in working life over the past two decades. Specifically, telework and ICT-based mobile work (TICTM) exemplifies how digital technology has led to more flexible workplace and working time prac...
¿Cómo logran las organizaciones sacar el máximo partido de sus empleados? Los estudios sobre la gestión de los recursos humanos han concluido que una práctica clave es la participación de los empleados: dejar que estos tomen decisiones sobre su propio trabajo y contribuyan a la toma de decisione...
New forms of organising work, non-standard forms of employment and new forms of self-employment are contributing to the diversity in the labour market across the Member States. They can be observed in the heterogeneity of the forms of employment that are distinct from those based on individual p...
An important goal of any pandemic response strategy is to assure the continued reliability of the electricity grid. Electricity production and delivery, two of the most important elements of economic and social infrastructure, must remain reliable during a pandemic because many parts of the infr...
Innovation and technological advancement are natural features of developed economies, and they are necessary to maintain and improve sustainable competitiveness in an era of globalisation. However, while most innovation tends to be incremental, some has a disruptive effect on production and serv...
Digital labour platforms are a new form of coordinating the provision of labour services enabled by the latest technological revolution. Many authors claim that digital labour platforms have the potential to disrupt the world of work, both positively by boosting participation in the labour marke...
Research on automation and the future of work has brought with it a range of research contributions which seek to determine what jobs will be lost to automation. For example, Frey and Osborne (2013) estimate the susceptibility of jobs to computerisation and find that 47% of US jobs are at risk o...
This paper provides an in-depth examination of labour market transitions in the EU over the period 2004-16, drawing on EU-Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and EU-Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data. Building on the earlier work of Ward-Warmedinger and Macchiarelli (2014), our analy...
