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"A key element of European policy is the emphasis on boosting employment and maximising its quality – creating ‘more and better jobs' – with a view to shaping a competitive, knowledge-based economy. Over the period 1995– 2006, considerable growth in employment took place in most European countries. This report seeks to determine if those jobs created were also of better quality. It does this by analysing the level of employment growth across the wage spectrum in each Member State; it also breaks down the growth in employment at different wage levels by sector, occupation, type of contract, and gender and in doing so explores the mechanisms underlying the observed patterns. The report also looks at announcements of restructuring in 2007 across the EU and Norway in 2007, and gauges the extent of consequent job creation and job loss, with a number of in-depth studies of the year's key restructuring events from national, sectoral and company perspectives."

"The European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) 2024 ‘first findings' factsheet provides the latest data on job quality in the EU as well as expert insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by a new world of work. Eurofound has been monitoring the development of job quality since the first round of the EWCS in 1990. The EWCS 2024 reveals the latest trends in job quality based on the seven dimensions of the job quality framework.

The survey also includes questions that capture changes in the way workers perform their work, the implications for work and for life outside of work, and whether or not workers' expectations from work are met in terms of preferences and values. It highlights how the use of digital technologies in the workplace is reshaping job quality in multiple ways."

"This report summarises structural developments in EU labour markets from 1995 to 2024. In particular, it describes trends in occupational and sectoral employment at the Member State and aggregate EU levels – mainly the professionalisation and occupational upgrading of employment on the one hand and the shift in employment to services that is occurring across all Member State labour markets on the other. The research demonstrates that since 2011, net employment growth has been increasingly concentrated in well-paid jobs, resulting in employment upgrading. This report tries to reconcile this finding with declining productivity growth in the EU, notably vis-à-vis the United States."

"This report describes the impact of the ‘great recession' on employment and the job structure in the EU27. It finds that despite a net loss of over five million jobs between 2008–2010, employment continued to grow in top-paying jobs, largely in knowledge-intensive services and business services. Meanwhile, sharp losses in medium-paying jobs in construction and manufacturing led to a shrinking of employment in the middle of the wage spectrum. More jobs were lost to men than to women and employment levels of older workers grew while those of core-age and, in particular, younger workers declined. Part-time work expanded across the wage spectrum while levels of temporary employment began to recover quickly from 2009 onwards after having borne the brunt of the early-recession job losses. "

"This report uses recent findings from two observatories of the European Foundation for the Improvement and Living Conditions (Eurofound); the European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) and the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) – as well as Eurostat data, to examine trends in compensation for public employees (in particular, local government workers), employment levels and employment relations issues within the state sector. The main focus is on developments over the period of the economic crisis – that is, from 2008 to the present – in the 27 EU Member States (EU27) and Norway, but with reference where relevant to earlier material."

"Over the course of 2008 and 2009, the world economy experienced one of the most serious recessions in modern times. In July 2009, 22 million men and women were unemployed throughout Europe, five million more than a year previously. Moreover, the situation may well still have further to play out: experience of previous recessions suggests that the full effect of the downturn upon employment has yet to materialise. Eurofound's analysis of restructuring and job loss over the past year is collated and reviewed in this, the fourth annual report of the European Restructuring Monitor. Analysing the effects of the recession upon employment, it also looks in detail how particular sectors, countries and occupations have been affected, and examines a range of responses that have been taken to safeguard employment - at the company, Member State and European level"

"This report sets out to assess the initial impact of the COVID-19 crisis on employment in Europe (up to Q2 2020), including its effects across sectors and on different categories of workers. It also looks at measures implemented by policymakers in a bid to limit the negative effects of the crisis. It first provides an overview of policy approaches adopted to mitigate the impact of the crisis on businesses, workers and citizens. The main focus is on the development, content and impact of short-time working schemes, income support measures for self-employed people, hardship funds and rent and mortgage deferrals. Finally, it explores the involvement of social partners in the development and implementation of such measures and the role of European funding in supporting these schemes."

"This report presents Eurofound's research on telework during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. It explores changes in the incidence of telework, working conditions experienced by employees working from home and changes to regulations addressing issues related to this working arrangement. The findings reveal a rapid escalation of telework triggered by the pandemic: in 2021, 2 out of 10 European employees were teleworking – a figure that most likely would not have been reached before 2027 had the pandemic not occurred. The health crisis unleashed the social and technological potential for flexibility in terms of working time and place. The impacts of telework on working conditions were initially difficult to determine because it was difficult to disentangle them from pandemic-induced factors, such as lockdowns and school closures. However, both the positive impacts, such as the contribution of telework to improving work–life balance, and the negative impacts, such as reduced social interaction and an increase in overtime worked, have become more evident. The rise in telework and an awareness of its implications for working conditions have prompted a renewed focus on regulatory frameworks, with new telework regulations passed in several EU Member States."

"This report looks in detail at recent shifts in the employment structure at Member State and EU level, examining the main sectors and occupations that have contributed to job loss and job growth. It finds, for example, that in 2011–2013, the majority of net employment losses continued to occur in middle-paid and low-to-middle-paid jobs in construction and manufacturing. Employment growth remained resilient in high-paid, high-skilled jobs, and knowledge-intensive services have been the main source of this growth. The report also examines some of the likely drivers behind the changing employment structure: technological change, globalisation and labour market institutions."

"This report describes the impact of the ‘great recession' on employment and the job structure in the EU27. It finds that despite a net loss of over five million jobs between 2008–2010, employment continued to grow in top-paying jobs, largely in knowledge-intensive services and business services. Meanwhile, sharp losses in medium-paying jobs in construction and manufacturing led to a shrinking of employment in the middle of the wage spectrum. More jobs were lost to men than to women and employment levels of older workers grew while those of core-age and, in particular, younger workers declined. Part-time work expanded across the wage spectrum while levels of temporary employment began to recover quickly from 2009 onwards after having borne the brunt of the early-recession job losses. "