Topic
This research explores policies and debates in relation to employment and related social policies on the European Union agenda. It seeks to analyze the links between national employment levels, the geography of skilled work for those with no work experience or in early career, and policy coordination at the national and European Union levels including the role of the European social partners. It also strives to examine the extent of policy thinking and planning in linking up the current youth employment crisis and resulting mobility trends. Finally it looks ahead by analyzing the potential for the elaboration of policies that address the European Union’s long term needs in light of demographic shifts. To this end, the research aims to: take stock of developments related to European Union employment policies, changing modes of governance and linkages to legitimacy demands and expectations; assess the different dimensions of youth unemployment in the fast-burning crisis period relevant to European Union governance and, in particular, youth intra-European Union migration, including skilled migration; provide an in-depth case of youth migration and place it in a comparative perspective; discuss linkages between the fast-burning youth employment crisis and broader demographic shifts, including a simmering slow-burning crisis in achieving inclusive growth; analyze the institutions and networks engaging in policy thinking in relation to this slow-burning crisis; identify the institutional parameters that enable coordinated action, the long-term effect of the choice of mode of governance in employment policies and the legitimacy implications of the intergenerational equity challenges emerging.
For civil society partners, this research is also the chance to benefit high level academic work on labour market and social dialogue trends, especially concerning young people (e.g. Youth Guarantee, Quality Framework on Traineeships).
People involved
COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL (CBS)
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM (UvA)
UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (ULB)
EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ETUC)
Key products
Youth Employment Crisis and Inclusive Growth (WP4)
Think Pieces
- Think Piece on The state of the Open Method of Coordination in Employment Policy
- The European Politics of Brain Drain: A Fast or Slow-Burning Crisis,? by Jacob A. Hasselbalch
Working papers
- Job search strategies and labour market outcomes of young recent migrants from Central & Eastern Europe in EU15 member states, by Janine Leschke and Silvana Weiss
-
Resilient Neoliberalism? Coping with Housing Booms and Busts on Europe’s
Periphery, by Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits
Key events
- Starting workshop (June 2015)
- Scientific Workshop on ‘Governing Demographic Change in Europe’ (mars 2017)