An increase in part-time employment over the past decade At the EU level, the share of part-time work in total employment has increased over the past decade, from 17.6% in 2008 to 19.3% in 2018. This growth was the most pronounced in the first years following the outbreak of the financial and... Find out more

Are labour market regulations fitfor purpose? Online labour platforms and the gig economy have recently attracted much attention from policymakers, researchers and business, mostly due to the impact they have on the way work is organised in society. Platform work includes a heterogeneous set of... Find out more

Disentangling the short-term effects of the crisis and changing labour demand Structural developments in employment over the past decade have been impacted by the shocks related to the 2008 crisis as well as by certain long-term trends, most notably aging populations and the changing labour demand... Find out more

Polarisation between countries in the shift towards a knowledge economy Job growth in the EU28 was concentrated in high-skilled occupations (Figure 2.9). Since 2013, professionals have on average been the fastest growing occupational group in theEU28, expanding by 5 million jobs, at a growth rate of... Find out more

Young people facing difficulties in labour market integration A successful integration of young people into the labour market currently represents one of the main challenges for EU employment policy. Those who attempted to enter the labour market during the crisis were faced with very high... Find out more

Big regional disparities in employment rates Wide divergences in employment rates persisted acrossthe EU. In 2018, Sweden had the highest employment rate(77.8%), followed by the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.Greece experienced the worst situation (55.3%), followedby Italy, Croatia and Spain... Find out more

Uneven recovery Employment has continued to grow in the EU (Figure 2.1). In 2018Q2, the employment rate was at an all-time high of 68.6%. This is a considerable improvement compared to the peak of the crisis (64.1% in 2013) and also surpasses the pre-crisis level of 65.9%. For the male population... Find out more

Developing greater resilience to (economic) shocks is an objective that has been gaining ground in official economic policy debates, particularly in the euro area, followingthe lasting scars that the recent economic and financial crises left but also in anticipation of the highly disruptive effects... Find out more

Cautious rolling back ofunconventional monetary policymeasures as economic outlookseems to improve Despite headline inflation reaching and surpassing the 2% target in the second half of 2018 in both the euro area and the EU, core inflation (the inflation rate which does not includethe usually... Find out more

The decline in top income tax rates Questions of taxation, from the structure and progressiveness of the tax system to the rules determining the tax base, have taken centre stage in the policy (and academic) debate in Europe and elsewhere. Pressures on public spending have been mounting for decades... Find out more