It's Our Job: Reforming Europe's Labour Markets

Abstract

The creation of jobs across the Europe remains a key economic and social challenge for the EU. Given the negative impact of the crisis on European citizens, the EU's ability to promote effective job creation policies will be viewed as a major success of the wider integration process. In this context, a new approach is required to provide a growth-based strategy for creating unemployment across Europe. What is required is an achievable strategy based on the realities of modern EU labour markets. This research, based on an analysis of six member states, provides a set of recommendations designed to reflect the current characteristics of national employment markets.

Footnotes

Eoin Drea is Research Officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies with expertise in the areas of European Monetary Union, central banking, political economy and the development of banking structures in the twentieth century. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic History from University College Cork, Ireland.

Siegfried Mureşan is a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party (EPP) Group. He serves as Vice-President of the Budgets Committee and substitute Member in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He served as Senior Political Advisor for Economic and Social Policy at the EPP.