14. July 2017 | Labour Market Trends and Forecasts
All articles in: Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
The new complex and intelligent digitalisation poses a significant challenge to the economies and the labour markets. In this context, the underlying article discusses the future of employment and ...read more
12. July 2017 | International Labour Markets
European unemployment insurance: finding the golden mean
Ever since Europe slipped into severe recession following the financial crisis in the U.S., people have been discussing how to make the European Union better equipped for such an economic collapse. ...read more
7. July 2017 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
New book publication: Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers ...read more
30. June 2017 | Interviews
The German job miracle: an interview with IAB Director Joachim Möller
From “the sick man of Europe” to the “German job miracle”: the German labour market has been performing extraordinarily well since 2005. Even in the crisis year 2009, when ...read more
30. June 2017 | Labour Market, Employment and Social Policy
The German labour market in a nutshell
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Germany’s labour market was in such a poor state that the country was described as ’the sick man of Europe’. Today, by contrast, the labour market is in such ...read more