Highlights
- Technological revolutions and societal transitions
- Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity: A European perspective
- Drifting into labour market insecurity? Labour market reforms in Europe after 2010
- Benchmarking Working Europe 2018
- The revised Shareholder Rights Directive 2017: policy implications for workers
- Managing public debt in Europe: an introductory guide
- European social dynamics: a quantitative approach
- Why are wages still lower in eastern and central Europe?
Publication
05/2018
Are we currently living through a new industrial and technological revolution? Does it differ qualitatively from similar revolutions in the past? How can we gauge its political implications?
Publication
Edited by 04/2018
This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe.
Publication
04/2018
This working paper examines the impact of fiscal austerity on EU labour market policies. Using a case study approach, it examines: the extent of change in unemployment benefit levels and policies; the effect of this on groups of workers; and whether the logic of activation policies has shifted. Overall, the broad direction of policy has not altered greatly under austerity. However, risks remain that an underlying move towards greater flexibility may lock in ‘low road’ grow...
Publication
03/2018
Analysing the state of 'working Europe' with the aid of a multi-level and multi-dimensional set of indicators and thus assessing what current EU policies have achieved or have not achieved, the Benchmarking Working Europe 2018 demonstrates that, despite renewed economic growth in GDP terms, the proceeds of this growth are being unequally shared and structural problems in the areas of education, infrastructure and R&D remain due to the EU's obsession with labour market...
Publication
03/2018
The 2017 revised Shareholder Rights Directive gives shareholders a say on executive pay and requires institutional investors to improve shareholder engagement. The directive is thus designed to provide a counterweight to the increasingly dominant ‘shareholder’ model of corporate governance which has put the interests of firms’ shareholders ahead of other stakeholders, including their workers. Drawing on the experience of the UK, Eur...
Publication
02/2018
This new introductory guide, ‘Managing public debt in Europe, reviews the debate and empirical evidence on the problems that high public debt may cause and the policy options for reducing it. To do so, it starts from the basics regarding the determinants of the evolution of public debt over time, explains under what conditions high public debt can lead to a crisis and reviews the theory and evidence on whether high public debt is detrimental for growth.
Publication
03/2018
This working paper tries to understand, through the cross-analysis of two databases, the gradual evolution of Social Europe in terms of processes and results.
Publication
01/2018
This new working paper explores why there is a persistent wage gap between western Europe and the new EU Member States of eastern and central Europe.
News
May 2018 edition of Transfer
23 May 2018The May 2018 edition of Transfer, the European Review of Labour and Research has just been published with a focus on ‘Trade Union and the polity: agendas and alliances’.
TURI Network of Trade Union Research Institutes celebrates Tenth Anniversary
22 May 2018The tenth anniversary of the TURI (trade union-related research institutes) network was marked this month when the group of 32 member organizations met in Berlin to discuss the current challenges facing labour and trade unions. Since its foundation in November 2007 TURI has gone from strength to strength as a forum for bringing together researchers from all over Europe to analyse current policy challenges.
Collective Bargaining April 2018
7 May 2018Find below the highlights of the latest issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter with the most important developments at European and member state level over the month of April.
New study shows austerity has made the labour market less secure in many EU countries
2 May 2018On 24 April, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) held in Brussels a book launch event aimed at presenting the main outcome of a research project on changes to labour market during a period of fiscal retrenchment from 2009 in 11 EU Member States.
ETUI Education call for proposals 2019-2020
2 May 2018
ETUI EDU is launching its call for proposals 2019-2020.
The objective of this call for proposals is to give to National Trade Union Organisations affiliated to ETUC the possibility to contribute with their own proposals on courses/material, even online courses, to the definition of the ETUI Education work programme for the period 01/04/2019 – 31/03/2020.
Grigor Gradev scholarhip awarded for research on social protection in Central and Eastern Europe
24 April 2018The first recipient of a major research prize funded by the ETUC and ITUC is a young scholar from Latvia who will investigate whether enforcement of social protection in Central and Eastern Europe has suffered from the fallout from the economic crisis. Ieva Bloma, a PhD student at the European University Institute in Florence, has been awarded the 2018 Grigor Gradev Scholarship and starts work this month on a project to map how compliance with working and safety conditions has been affected by austerity measures enacted in the wake of the crisis.
28 April 2018 - World Day for Safety and Health at Work: ‘Union workplaces are safer workplaces’
23 April 2018This year on 28 April - the World Day for Safety and Health at Work – the union-selected global theme is ‘Union workplaces are safer workplaces’.
Publication of the month
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Technological revolutions and societal transitions
Are we currently living through a new industrial and technological revolution? Does it differ qualitatively from similar revolutions in the past? How can we gauge its political implications? Read more
Video of the day
Education
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News 2 May 2018
ETUI Education call for proposals 2019-2020
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Course Brussels, Belgium, 23 May - 25 May 2018
Intergenerational Solidarity and Active Ageing
Events
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Jun27 Jun - 29 Jun 2018
Hotel Thon Europe, 1040 Brussels, BelgiumETUC/ETUI conference: The World(s) of Work in Transition
Tags
- Sustainable development
- Digitalisation
- Reforms Watch
- Pensions
- Climate change
- Demography
- Economic policy
- Education/training
- Employment
- Energy
- EU enlargement
- EU legislation
- Flexicurity
- Gender
- Globalisation
- Health & Safety
- Industrial relations
- Labour law
- Mobility
- Multinational corporations
- Nanotechnology
- Psychosocial risks
- Restructuring
- Social dumping
- Trade unions
- Wages
- Welfare State
- Work organisation
About ETUI
The European Trade Union Institute is the independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European umbrella organisation. The ETUI places its expertise – acquired in particular in the context of its links with universities, academic and expert networks – in the service of workers’ interests at European level and of the strengthening of the social dimension of the European Union. Read more
The ETUI is financially supported by the European Union
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