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Farmers could not survive without subsdies
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Almost three quarters of farmers say they could not survive without subsidies, according to a Farmers Weekly poll: Subsidies How does one wean farmers off their subsidy dependence so that they become more like any other business that relies on retur...
"Should the left be arguing for an EU wide unemployment insurance system?" by Dan Corry
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As the fiscal union screw tightens, it is time the centre-left had a debate about what it can do to make the Eurozone more progressive. Slowly, slowly, bit by bit and sometimes in big leaps, the EU – or at least the Eurozone – is moving towards a...
Unemployed Young Italians: Too “Choosy” to Stay in Italy?
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Recent statements by the Italian Minister of Labour's have created a controversy and online "craze" centred on chronic youth unemployment, while citizen initiatives are launched to keep young Italians from leaving the country in search of better oppo...
Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up
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The apprenticeship scheme was thrown into question, following the damaging report by the government’s own department which found that it is being used as a way of getting cheap labour. Vincent Moss exposed the report and yesterday which stated: “...
Unemployment Update in the EU
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Source: EurostatWell, the figures give more or less the same story as last month. Unemployment is roughly the same in the EA17 or the EU27 (up just 0.1% in the EA17), Greece and Spain are champions both in youth as well as in overall unemployment, It...
Money, jobs, growth, pacts - how EU tries to boost employment
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As of 18 October, the EU has engaged in talking ‘shop’. Between fighting large-scale unemployment and being in favour of positions created just to reach this goal or promoting the creation of ‘quality’ jobs, there's just one question: who’s...
Implementing EU Compact for Growth and Jobs
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Even if the European (part) executive has already published the Commission Work Programme (CWP) 2013, two volumes of COM(2012) 629, there is quite a backlog of ongoing legislative and policy intiatives to clear. The approaching October 2012 Europea...
Concord: Gender- and HRBA- Trainers wanted
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CONCORD is seeking to engage two people to organise and facilitate training sessions on gender and HRBA for our staff. The terms of reference for this consultancy are attached. I kindly request you disseminate them among your expert contacts.HRBA Tra...
Genomförandet av EU:s tillväxt- och sysselsättningspakt
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Europeiska rådet den 28 till 29 juni 2012 (EUCO 76/1/12 rev 1 sv) antog en tillväxt- och sysselsättningspakt (se stycke 1 och bilagan från sidan 7). I slutsatserna den 18-19 oktober 2012 (EUCO 156/12) gör Europeiska rådet en bedömning av lä...
EU:n kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen täytäntöönpano
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Kesäkuun 2012 Eurooppa-neuvosto hyväksyi kasvu- ja työllisyyssopimuksen (EUCO 76/12 päätelmien kohta 1 sekä liite sivulta 7). Lokakuun Eurooppa-neuvosto (EUCO 156/12) kehotti (itseään?) ohjelman ripeään ja päättäväiseen toimeenpanoon:...
Compact for Growth and Jobs – Report to the European Council
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After the Barroso highlights, we turn to the report: Implementation of the Compact for Growth and Jobs – Report to the European Council 18-19 October 2012 (14 pages). - This helpful report has been published in other EU languages as well. Click on...
Barroso on the Compact for Growth and Jobs
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As some other pre-democratic political entitities, the European Union has its own provisional government, called the European Council, with the Euro Summit as its shadow (not transparently explained or highlighted on the Eurozone portal). Herman Van...
”Just a few more issues to fix”: EU Compact for Growth and Jobs
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After decrypting a tiny paragraph with main sources and looking up to the summit of Mount Olympus or reflecting on the European Council looking down on EU citizens, we continue by looking at the conclusions EUCO 156/12 (all language versions here) re...
Call for Applications: Two months paid internship at the European Centre for Minority Issues
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European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) is looking to nominate a candidate of Romani background for two months paid internship at its headquarters in Flensburg, Germany. Continue reading →Source: ECMI InfoChannel @ European Centre for Minori...
New approach needed to tackle youth unemployment
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Support needs to be targeted specifically at young people, taking their background into account, if a substantial difference is to be made to unacceptably high youth unemployment figures, writes Fiona Blacke...
Men and women at work: simple pictures can tell a complex story well
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There’s a great example in today’s release of the latest employment figures of the power of simple pictures to communicate complex points. In this case, it is the use of two pie charts by the Office of National Statistics, pulling togethe...
Savage competition hits western European truckers
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Living on an island has its advantages even in the single market: the UK's geographical isolation has saved Britons the unhappy fate of a growing number of unemployed European truckers, writes Justin Stares...
Waini*: (part 7) Chinese will look after German care recipients
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Dear reader,first of all Waini is short for "Worry about idiocy not inflation", a series about what goes extremely wrong or where some serious misperception is taking place. Waini will be used from now on in order to shorten the headlines, give them...
A Neeter way to look at unemployment
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Greek unemployment hit a new record high of 25.1 per cent in July, having climbed for 35 straight months. It’s now more than double the eurozone average of 11.4 per cent and youth unemployment — between 15 and 24 years old — has hit...
The old are stealing our jobs!
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From Steven Englander at Citi — a little observed factoid regarding employment trends among the older demographic: We are taking one small slice at this subject, starting with the little noticed fact that employment to population ratios among o...
Different Unemployment Rates in E.U. States: Stretching Federalism Too Far?
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For August 2012, the unemployment rate in the E.U. was 10.5 percent, which translates into 25 million Europeans without a job. In the U.S., the comparable rate was 8.1. &nbs...
Eurozone Unemployment 11.4%
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Zone euro : le chômage à 11,4 % en août, à un niveau recordPlus de 18 millions de personnes étaient au chômage dans la zone euro en août, a indiqué lundi 1er octobre l'office européen de statistiques Eurostat.Perhaps this will get the attent...
Eurozone unemployment continues to rise
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The eurozone's record unemployment rate has edged higher and the manufacturing sector continued to shrink across much of the currency bloc...
Europe isn't working
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Europe isn't working By David Gow on Monday, 01 October 2012 Overnight Ryder Cup euphoria (see below) in Europe swiftly dissipated as the first day of the final quarter of 2012 dawned with evidence that the...
EESC Employees’ Group extraordinary meeting in Nicosia: a European budget for employment
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I took the night flight to Larnaca yesterday evening in order to attend an extraordinary meeting today of the EESC’s employees’ group at Nicosia on the theme of ’A European budget for employment’. The meeting took place at th...
Unemployment Fund Idea Advances
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The idea of a joint unemployment fund for the euro zone, which dates back to 1977, is making a reappearance.
Honeyball’s Weekly Round-Up
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Part time work and self-employment is replacing full time employment for women. Well that’s according to the TUC which found the number of women in full-time employee jobs has fallen by 170,000, nearly 200,000 more women now describe themselves as...
Part-time work helps employment
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Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute in Munich have recently published a comparative study on European labor markets during the period of economic crisis. It has presented a [...]...
Leiden, luck and labour
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A year ago LEUSAA was founded, a year ago 60 EUS alumni entered the labour market, a year ago everything was different. Some found a job, some didn’t. But why? CV and soft skills cannot be the reason so there … Continue reading →...
Esma, and Wesley Crusher, on financial sector pay
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There are already guidelines in Europe for setting compensation in the financial sector so as not to encourage risk-taking that threatens the stability of the system as a whole....
Europe beyond lost generations
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Spain is very proud to have the best prepared generation of young people in its history, but not so pleased to confront that all that training is no guarantee for a job. Unemployment in Spain (25%) is twice the average … Continue reading →...
FH Undergrad Interns – Introducing the Sixth Generation
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Back in 2005/2006 I got annoyed with hiring highly competent people with several degrees as interns, most of whom really wanted a job not an internship (if you’re in that boat read this). In a spasm of proactivity I went about setting up our lo...
"Youth Unemployment in Italy at the Time of the Great Recession: Labor Market Liberalization or Educational Reform?" by Francesco Pastore
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The Great Recession, so to use the expression that the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has proposed, has, on the one hand, exacerbated the old weaknesses of the country’ school-to-work transition system and, on the other hand, added new reasons of conc...
What driverless trucks in Oz mean for oil workers in Norway
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Norwegian oil workers shut down a chunk of the country’s production for 16 days in July over a pay dispute. With the summer over, further strikes are being discussed.Being...
QE in a simple pythonic recursive function
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NOTEthe core assumption of this model, which is embedded in this line of codeself.unemployment_qe_ratio = MH.MeasuredQuantity(4, people) / MH.MeasuredQuantity(10, usd) or in this oneself.economy.unemployment -= (self.economy.unemployment_qe_rati...
Is that robot going to steal your job?
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We have written extensively about how the global economy is becoming increasingly technology-intensive, and reaping productivity gains.Robots, we’ve argued, are slowly...
Are UK companies hoarding labour?
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Something of a puzzle is emerging in the UK’s labour market.The overall employment picture is definitely improving. According to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics,...
The European Creative Class – theory and reality
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The creative class. Could be said that the term is Richard Florida‘s brain child. He put forward the theory that there is a new class in the wide pool of the workforce: the creatives. In this case, the creative class points to the multitude of...
"Youth Unemployment – Conditions for Young People in the Nordic Countries" by Jonas Olofsson and Eskil Wadensjo
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Even though the Nordic countries show marked similarities in terms of socioeconomic and social conditions, there is much that separates them. Welfare policy ambitions may be similar, but when we examine the conditions for youths to establish themselv...
US payrolls and past as predictor for construction and manufacturing employment
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CreditSights has updated its sector-specific chart to reflect this morning’s payrolls report, and you can see that construction and manufacturing employment continue to...
Reader Letters: Unemployed Youth
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Reader responses to our article Tuesday on the International Labour Organization's new forecast for euro-zone youth unemployment The responses reveal a misunderstanding of the situation for these young Millennials, as well as show how the consequen...
Erkan will be in Manchester, UK on 6-7 Sept to attend Careers #BeyondBorders.
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This is an international seminar “bringing together language learning professionals, career development experts and the international press around the topic of ‘Global careers in a challenging economy’. Erik Qualman, the Internat...
Signs of a Lost Generation Within Europe
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Euro-zone youth unemployment will remain elevated for at least the next half-decade say the authors of a report from the International Labor Organization, The Wall Street Journal’s Riva Froymovich reports.
Is banking losing its appeal?
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Could it be that the stampede of Oxbridge graduates clamouring to work 100-hour weeks in Canary Wharf is slowing? Perhaps four years of banking crises, scandals and enthusiastic...
"Youth Unemployment in Poland – Economic Growth is Not Enough" by Michal Polakowski
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Until recently, youth unemployment had received relatively little attention in Poland’s policy-making circles. However, since 2008 the youth employment situation has deteriorated considerably, even though Poland’s general economic indicators stoo...
Losing the Middle Class: An Educational-Industrial Policy
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Beneath the headlines showing new figures on unemployment (which do not include the unemployed who are no longer looking for work or applying for unemployment compensation) is the story of the changing distribution of jobs in the American economy. Th...
The End of Men (as we know them)
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This month, journalist and editor Hanna Rosin is releasing her already infamous book “The End of Men: And the Rise of Women” (Riverhead Hardcover). It has been eagerly anticipated ever since the 2010 publishing of her article for The Atla...
The Federal Reserve on Full Employment: A Democracy Deficit?
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The American economy expanded during the second quarter of 2012 at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate for all of the American states combined was expected to remain above 8 percent. In this context, the chairman of th...
Full Employment in a Republic: Hollande’s France
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Facing an unemployment rate of 10% in his state, with youth particularly hard-hit (23% for those under the age of 25), Francois Hollande of the state of France announced in August 2012 a new initiative for the legislature to pay most of the salaries...
France: New Pro-Roma Employment Policy Strikes a Nerve
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'The 4,395,000 French "job seekers" will be happy to learn that the Roma job problem has been solved!!! Their access to work will be "helped".'...
Euorozone Unemployment at Record High
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11.3%. How high will it go before Eurozone leaders decide that austerity was a mistake?
8 information sources you should check first in the EU employment and social affairs policy
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In the last years, the EU employment and social affairs policy emerged as one of our most requested topics, probably only second to economy. It is a policy that equally attracts attention of both – professionals and the general public. And the curr...
Empowering education: the path to Europe’s brighter future in innovation
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Number of views :155(The third in the series of August crowd-sourced blog posts, by Javier Agüera, Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder, Geeksphone iHQ) I was born in the 90s. My generation is commonly referred to as the “lost generation” o...
Vacancy in Brussels
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I have a vacancy for a Parliamentary Assistant in my Brussels office. Full details are available on the excellent w4mp jobs website. Please go to http://www.w4mpjobs.org/JobDetails.aspx?jobid=36407 if you are interested. Filed under: Labour Party...
'Mini-jobs' don't work in Germany, and they won't work in Britain | Stephanie Blankenburg
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Though being floated by the Treasury as a measure to increase employment, German 'mini-jobs' offer little money or securityThe most recent copycat idea floated by the Treasury to promote employment creation through ever more flexible labour markets i...
"Youth Unemployment and Youth Employment Policy – Lessons from French Experience" by Florence Lefresne
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The last crisis has merely amplified what has become a quasi structural phenomenon: in the last 30 years, the youth unemployment rate in France has never dropped below 15% and has regularly exceeded 20%. And yet, youth integration into the labour mar...
The unsolved puzzle of the UK labour market: Why is employment rising as GDP is falling?
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The recent employment figures released show that 200,000 new jobs were generated in the UK in the three months to June. Ian Brinkley ponders these figures in light of the continuing contraction of the UK’s economy, explaining some of the factors...
Bob Lutz on the "green jobs" scam
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Bob Lutz, the legendary automotive industry top executive, explains why "green jobs" are - and will remain - a failure: But as result of the belief that fossil fuels are bringing on global warming, governments, federal and state, have created a...
"Falling Wage Costs: Europe’s Light at the End of the Tunnel?" by Ronald Janssen
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At the end of July, the Conference Board (a business sector driven research association based in New York) published a study pointing out that several crisis ridden countries in Europe are now recording significant cuts in wage costs. In their view,...
"The Youth Unemployment Situation in the Czech Republic" by Pavel Janicko
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The issue of youth employment and unemployment in the Czech Republic is a topic whose importance has increased particularly with crisis phenomena that began to be visible in late 2008 and especially during the years 2009-2010. In this period signif...
"Youth Unemployment in Crisis Times – Who has Failed in Greece?" by Annie Tubadji
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What was the case with youth unemployment in Greece before the crisis? The inactivity of Greek youth increased with almost 10% (from 63% to 72%) in the period of 2000-2008. This means that for the last decade, over two thirds of Greek youths were n...
Labour market policy reaction to the crisis in Europe and the US
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Southern European countries that are currently facing particularly acute labour market issues have done little in terms of additional training. Italy and Spain have seen the most important increases in spending on unemployment benefits. Only Greece h...
