The lead article of this Bulletin, “Explaining financial market puzzles with learning”, provides some fresh answers to this and other socalled puzzles in the financial markets. It presents a novel line of research that derives feedback mechanisms in asset prices for rational traders that have im...
This in-depth analysis summarises the results obtained from EU budget resources dedicated to the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) and the role of the European Parliament in making such resources available. EGF supports workers losing their jobs as a result of major structural changes in wo...
The following study gives an overview of the current economic and social situation in Austria, with a particular focus on explaining the Austrian labour relations model and the importance of social partnership and its role in developments since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2008-200...
The purpose of this quality report is to provide the users of the European Union Labour Market Statistics with a tool for assessing the quality of these statistics which are based on the European Union Labour Force Survey. It provides a brief description of the survey and a summary of the main q...
This thesis explores issues related to public and private insurance of income shocks, and the importance of human capital accumulation. The first chapter argues that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution of labor supply is a state-dependent variable which strongly depends on the return to...
The European Commission promotes geographical mobility as a strategy to reduce discrepancies between supply and demand in European labour markets. While migration levels are low within and across EU Member States by comparison with other OECD regions, the proportion of EU migrants working in the...
Reliable and consistent time series are essential to any kind of economic forecasting. Skills forecasting needs to combine data from national accounts and labour force surveys, with the pan-European dimension of Cedefop’s skills supply and demand forecasts, relying on different international cla...
The present report describes the main characteristics of the Labour Force Surveys in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as two Candidate Countries and three EFTA countries in 2013. All these countries provide Eurostat with LFS micro-data for publication. The aim of this report i...
Cette publication présente de nouvelles illustrations de l’influence des migrations internationales en Europe et dans quelques autres pays de l’OCDE sur la population active ; sur les niveaux d’éducation ; et sur l’évolution de la distribution des professions au cours de la dernière décennie. El...
