This study examines the employment situation of parents with young children in the EU and specifically, the factors that affect parents' return to the labour market. The paper identifies interventions that could help parents return to work after family-related leave and improve labour market int...
In the years 2015-2016, almost 2.5 million first-time asylum seekers arrived in the EU. Due to their geographical position, Greece, Hungary and Italy were main entry points and have experienced unexpected and unprecedented inflows of asylum seekers and migrants. Moreover, all three countries sho...
This paper focuses on the dynamics of innovation diffusion by analysing the impact of the regulatory framework on the gap between top firms and the followers. It expands on the existing literature by explicitly investigating the relationship between the regulatory frameworks in the labour, goods...
65% of children entering primary school today may ultimately end up working in completely new types of job that do not yet exist. Scott McLeod and Karl Fisch advanced this hypothesis several years ago in their widely discussed Shift happens analysis. While such findings may be hard to verify emp...
Inactivity among young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs) is rarely a single-factor issue, but is driven by a variety of personal and socio-economic characteristics. This is all too clear in the case of Bulgaria – a country where the labour market and educational institution...
This thesis contains four papers. While the first three take a micro labor perspective, the fourth takes an international macro perspective. The common theme in the first three papers is the acquisition and destruction of human capital. The fourth was inspired by a seminar given by Jacques Melit...
IntroductionThis report proposes a new index on quality of Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) implementation. The report presents an approach that focuses primarily on the client journey of ALMP delivery, but also covers the institutional framework of ALMP implementation. The calculation of the ...
‘Sustainable growth for all: choices for the future of social Europe’: the 2019 annual edition of Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) confirms that the EU is well placed to protect and enhance citizens’ living standards while pursuing an ambitious transition to an environmentally...
