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Phoebe Campbell // 5 October 2021
The pandemic has not only had a disproportionate effect on youth employment as young people were more than twice as likely to lose their …
Len Shackleton // 22 June 2021
It can be a pain when your boss rings you when you are having a TV dinner, or an important email pings on your …
Len Shackleton // 21 May 2021
Working at home is something many of us have got used to – maybe too used to – over the last year. In a …
Arnaud Sadzot // 9 February 2021
The COVID-19 crisis has not only led to a health disaster, but has also profoundly affected our economies and lifestyles. The European economy has …
Annabel Mempel // 28 February 2018
In 2017, youth unemployment (young people between 15-24, without work or enrolled in education) in the EU as a whole was on average of …
21 November 2017
Widespread automation is often named as the greatest long-term threat to human employment. But Europe’s immediate job market problems are of a different sort: …
Dennis Avorin // 6 September 2017
Since the refugee crisis of 2015, the Swedish government has made strong efforts to implement a particularly ineffective policy. Through so-called “public relief jobs”, …
4 September 2017
The Swedish labor market makes use of twelve different forms of employment subsidies involving three percent of the entire active work force. In this …
5 July 2017
The European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs are currently promoting a new legislative proposal …
Diego Zuluaga // 23.11.2015 Those of you familiar with the 1983 cult classic Scarface by Brian de Palma will remember that it begins with …
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