This paper focuses on the post-crisis period and addresses the following: a reconstruction of the macroeconomic scenarios and the occupational perspectives; an analysis of the employment policies in Europe, which are developed in order to create a job-friendly environment and to adapt the workforce to the needs of the global employment market, i.e. by promoting the job competencies needed in the future . A jobless economic growth is one of the main problems revolving around the recovery for developed countries from the 2008 global economic and financial crisis onwards. The 2015 and 2016 projections show a world still in the midst of difficulty: in some areas of the old continent the employment growth remains weak while unemployment continues to rise; others, like the emerging economies, see their growth falling; others, like Russia, are facing obstacles due to geopolitical tensions. Unlike these, at the beginning of 2015 the USA is currently showing a steady recovery. The specific measures put in place in the field of employment policies aim at ensuring decent work and prevent job seekers from being relegated to informal or insicure work with little or no social protection and limited earnings opportunities. Across all countries, future policy development must respect international labour standards, including respect for fundamental principles and rights at work. Nevertheless developed countries, EU countries in particular, are facing a great contradiction: how to finance a quality welfare and yet maintain sound finances. In particular, a slow growth continues to strain public budgets and the interventions aimed at tackling low unemployment rates in order to raise employment levels that have been relying far too long on a type of “expanding precarity” . It is only under the lead of European Commission President Jean-Claud Junker (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-2128_en.htm) that a change of direction is being recorded in the political management of economics and society, following the conviction that investments and incentives are needed from the State in order to control the growing levels of economic inequality . The early shoots of change can be seen in the measures that the European Central Bank has been adopting at the beginning of 2015, notably the Quantitative Easing (QE). Such measures are being adopted in a difficult and challenging moment. As for this, the case of Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 elections is a paradigmatic case, in its attempt to oppose the European authorities from renegotiating the country’s debt.

Post-crisis work policies in the EU between stability and flexibility

BIANCO, ADELE
2015-01-01

Abstract

This paper focuses on the post-crisis period and addresses the following: a reconstruction of the macroeconomic scenarios and the occupational perspectives; an analysis of the employment policies in Europe, which are developed in order to create a job-friendly environment and to adapt the workforce to the needs of the global employment market, i.e. by promoting the job competencies needed in the future . A jobless economic growth is one of the main problems revolving around the recovery for developed countries from the 2008 global economic and financial crisis onwards. The 2015 and 2016 projections show a world still in the midst of difficulty: in some areas of the old continent the employment growth remains weak while unemployment continues to rise; others, like the emerging economies, see their growth falling; others, like Russia, are facing obstacles due to geopolitical tensions. Unlike these, at the beginning of 2015 the USA is currently showing a steady recovery. The specific measures put in place in the field of employment policies aim at ensuring decent work and prevent job seekers from being relegated to informal or insicure work with little or no social protection and limited earnings opportunities. Across all countries, future policy development must respect international labour standards, including respect for fundamental principles and rights at work. Nevertheless developed countries, EU countries in particular, are facing a great contradiction: how to finance a quality welfare and yet maintain sound finances. In particular, a slow growth continues to strain public budgets and the interventions aimed at tackling low unemployment rates in order to raise employment levels that have been relying far too long on a type of “expanding precarity” . It is only under the lead of European Commission President Jean-Claud Junker (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-2128_en.htm) that a change of direction is being recorded in the political management of economics and society, following the conviction that investments and incentives are needed from the State in order to control the growing levels of economic inequality . The early shoots of change can be seen in the measures that the European Central Bank has been adopting at the beginning of 2015, notably the Quantitative Easing (QE). Such measures are being adopted in a difficult and challenging moment. As for this, the case of Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 elections is a paradigmatic case, in its attempt to oppose the European authorities from renegotiating the country’s debt.
2015
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