This working paper uses the EUROMOD tax-benefit microsimulation model and its Labour Market Adjustment (LMA) Add-On together with EU-SILC microdata to construct country-specific scenarios that simulate the full and partial closure of the Gender Employment Gap and explore the resulting fiscal and distributional consequences. Particularly, we aim at simulating the narrowing and closure of the […]
Projects
Towards more inclusive strategies for extended working lives
This policy brief draws on insights from the PATHS2INCLUDE work package “Early and late exit: the impact of national employment policies and institutional factors” and aims to provide recommendations that promote more inclusive and equitable extended working lives...
Equal opportunities in employment for women and men
This policy brief aims to provide a summary of the most relevant results as well as policy recommendations that have emerged from the PATHS2INCLUDE research that aimed to obtain a more nuanced understanding of the factors that influence women’s labour market inclusion...
Pathways to Inclusion: Towards truly inclusive labour markets
Overcoming Hiring Discrimination in Europe
Paving the way for inclusive labour markets under the European Pillar of Social Rights
Overcoming Hiring Discrimination in Europe
New and changing risks of labour market attachment – the future of work
This working paper aims to deepen the understanding of the new factors associated with the risk of underemployment, unemployment and inactivity, while at the same time investigating the new dimensions of labour market vulnerability. The first part of the paper provides a descriptive analysis of historical vulnerabilities, plotting trends in labour force participation, underemployment, and […]
Increasing employment opportunities for individuals in vulnerable positions – the impact of employment policies during changing economic conditions
This working paper examines how labour-market vulnerability evolved for migrant workers during the pandemic and evaluates the inclusiveness of policy responses in five European countries: Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland and Spain. The analysis pursues two objectives: 1) to analyse the labour-market policies and measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 crisis in these five countries; […]
Fostering Inclusion of Workers in Vulnerable Situations: Practices and Policies at Company-Level. Evidence from qualitative interviews in four countries: Norway, Germany, Romania, Poland
This working paper investigates how company-level strategies interact with national policy contexts to support the inclusion of vulnerable workers across the three different phases of employment – recruitment, career development, and retention. Using qualitative interviews with employers in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania, we explore how organisations respond to vulnerabilities related to health limitations and […]
Increased flexibility and the position of women in the labour market: Has it changed after the pandemic?
This paper studies the extent to which the increased flexibility brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, which allows more employees to work from home (WFH), has helped improve the position of women in the labour market in recent years and, in particular, that of mothers. Using data from the EU–Labour Force Survey for 20 countries […]
EU funds for inclusive labour markets
Overcoming Hiring Discrimination in Europe
Organizational context of ethnic discrimination. Results from a cross-national factorial survey experiment
Organizational context of ethnic discrimination.
Overcoming Hiring Discrimination in Europe
Overcoming Hiring Discrimination in Europe
Hiring discrimination across national contexts
Gender norms and parents’ employment characteristics in Europe
Employment diversity in Europe: Intersectionality and data gaps
Employment diversity in Europe: Intersectionality and data gaps
Gender norms and parents’ employment characteristics in Europe
Gender norms and parents’ employment characteristics in Europe