We analyse the use of active labour market policy (ALMP) measures and short-time work arrangements (STWAs) by Luxembourg firms during the years of economic and financial crisis (2008-09) and the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis (2010-13). About 34% of Luxembourg firms used ALMPs between...
This report explores the current position in regard to gender equality as a field of intervention in European Public Employment Services (PES). Information was obtained from individual PES through their completion of a survey questionnaire distributed through the EU PES Network, 28 of the 30 PES...
The dramatic events brought about by the COVID-19 crisis in the first half of 2020 put this thematic paper in an unforeseen emergency context. The priorities in the EU, as well as elsewhere in the world, quickly shifted to short-term concerns such as the best ways to limit the propagation of the...
This paper uses a macroeconomic model to analyse the transmission of the COVID19-pandemic and its associated lockdown and quantify the stabilising effects of the economic policy response. Our simulations identify firm liquidity problems as crucial for shock propagation and amplification. We then...
This report summarises the principal results of an ad hoc study on ‘Mapping short-time work schemes in the EU’. It is a desk study based on 17 national reports prepared by experts from the European Centre of Expertise (ECE), largely in the autumn of 2019, on EU and national sources and on the ex...
Labour market slack is the shortfall between the volume of work desired by workers and the actual volume of work available. The most important indicator of labour slack is the unemployment rate, but an exclusive focus on this fails to take account of the four-fifths of the jobless population who...
Using firm-level data from a large-scale European survey among 20 countries, we analyse the determinants of firms using short-time work (STW). We show that firms are more likely to use STW in case of negative demand shocks. We show that STW schemes are more likely to be used by firms with high d...
This report presents the results of a comparative research project that was carried out by Dutch research institute Panteia, in cooperation with SEOR, between June 2011 and June 2012. In the course of the project, an overview of STWA use in all European Member States was attained, followed by a ...
