Month: April 2014

PhD Summer school: “Flexicurity in Today’s Labour Market: A Transition From Securing Jobs to Ensuring Employment

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – ReflecT Summer School Summer school: “Flexicurity in Today’s Labour Market: A Transition From Securing Jobs to Ensuring Employment”, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, 14-18 July 2014 It is a major challenge for European labor markets to overcome the inherent tension between the increasing flexibility, dynamism, and efficiency requirements on the one han... »

A new OSE opinion paper from the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna

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Intergenerational Justice and Public Policy in Europe by Pieter Vanhuysse European Social Observatory (OSE) Paper Series, Opinion Paper No. 16, 2014, 17 pp. In this short essay, Pieter Vanhuysse summarizes European findings from his Bertelsmann Stiftung report developing a simple four-dimensional snapshot index of intergenerational justice in the OECD. He highlights the fact that EU member states ... »

UK spending of EU youth unemployment money misdirected, says report

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Youth unemployment has left “a generation scarred”, according to a House of Lords report out today. With the rate of young jobless in the EU still at nearly double its pre-crisis level, and the UK experiencing exceptionally high levels of unemployment, the report calls on the Government to rethink the way it uses European funding. For more details: www.parliament.uk »