Structural change in EU labour markets: a generation of employment shifts
Hurley, John ; Adăscăliței, Dragoș ; Litardi, Chiara ; Sostero, Matteo
Publications Office of the European Union - Luxembourg
2025
47 p.
employment ; labour market ; structural change ; productivity
Research Report
September 2025
Employment
https://doi.org/10.2806/2582210
English
"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."
Digital
ISBN (PDF) : 978-92-897-2502-6
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