Eurozone job crisis : trends and policy responses

• Pubblicazione: Geneva, : International Labour Office, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (57 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.941085
• Soggetto topico: Labor market - Europe; Unemployment - Europe
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Economic conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Executive summary; 1 New clouds on the Eurozone employment horizon; Figure 1 Planned and actual unemployment rates in Adjustment Programme Countries; Figure 2 Employment rates (proportion of working-age persons who have a job, percentages); Figure 3 Unemployment rates (percentages); Figure 4 Labour productivity (2005 = 100) and potential job losses in the Eurozone; 2 The policy response so far: Rationale and impact ; Box 1 Reforms in collective bargaining and employment regulations in selected Eurozone countries Table 1 Changes in employment protection regulations and collective bargaining in Eurozone countries, 2008-2012; Figure 5 Eurozone SMEs reporting a deterioration in access to finance(percentages); Table 2 Investment as a percentage of cash holdings of small listed companies; Figure 6 Change in unit labour costs (cumulative change over 2000-08 and 2008-11, percentages); Figure 7 Spending on active labour market programmes per unemployed person in surplus countries and deficit countries (in euros) ; 3 Way forward Table 3 Unemployment rates in 2012 and 2014: A job-centred scenario versus exacerbated financial stress; Box 2 Exacerbated financial stress in the Eurozone versus a job-centred strategy: A modelling assessment; Box 3 Tackling the youth employment crisis: A call for action; Figure 8 Participants in active labour market programmes in Eurozone countries by age group, 2010 (percentages); Box 4 Examples of youth guarantee programmes; Table 4 Cost and allocations of a youth guarantee scheme in Eurozone (million of euro) ; 4 Concluding remarks: no recovery possible without concerted action Box 5 Sweden's response to the financial crisis in the 1990's: Lessons from a job-centred strategy; Box 6 T he EU Horizontal Social Clause; References
• Sommario/riassunto: The study provides the latest trends on the employment situation in EU countries and examines the labour market reforms adopted by various governments.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eurozone job crisis
• ISBN: 92-9251-014-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814045203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Growth with Equity