Benchmarking Working Europe 2009
Description
This year’s report provides an assessment of Lisbon Strategy. It asks whether the EU is really moving in the direction of knowledge-based growth, examines whether the EU has witnessed the creation of more and better jobs and considers whether the Union is succeeding in attaining greater social cohesion.
The report highlights:
- The discrepancy between the initial targets set in 2000 and the results achieved so far. There has been only limited progress in the areas of lifelong learning, school drop-out rates and investment in research and development.
- Employment creation has risen… but mainly through part-time and temporary jobs.
- The wage share of workers has significantly declined.
The report concludes that raising social and environmental standards could assist in ensuring sustainable growth and a healthier, more cohesive society.
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Author(s)/Editor(s)
Table of contents
Introduction
John Monks, ETUC, General Secretary ; Philippe Pochet, ETUI, General Director ; Maria Jepsen, ETUI, Director of Research Department
1. Close to ten years of the Lisbon strategy
Ronald Janssen, ETUC
2. Has the Lisbon strategy equipped Europe to become more resilient to the economic crisis?
Béla Galgóczi, ETUI
3. Has the Lisbon strategy contributed to more and better jobs?
Janine Leschke, ETUI
4. Income and inequality
Maarten Keune, ETUI
5. Worker participation and the Lisbon agenda
Bruno Cattero, University of Piemonte orientale ; Romuald Jagodzinski, ETU I; Norbert Kluge, ETUI ; Isabelle Schömann, ETUI ; Michael Stollt, ETUI ; Kurt Vandaele, ETUI ; Sigurt Vitols, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
6. Has European social dialogue and social legislation supported the Lisbon strategy?
Stefan Clauwaert, ETUI ; Anne Peeters, Observatoire Social Européen (OSE) ; Isabelle Schömann, ETUI ; Wiebke Warneck, ETUI
7. Does work impact health and how much?
Roland Gauthy, ETUI
8. What's in the sustainable development strategy for workers?
Christophe Degryse, Observatoire Social Européen (OSE)
