In April 1999, the unemployment rate in the NUTS-2 regions of the European Union varied between 2.1% and 28.7%. Breakdowns by gender and age highlight even greater regional differences. The rate of ...

Although patterns of time use are generally quite similar throughout Europe, some interesting differences can be observed between women and men and between the countries surveyed. On average, women aged ...

Promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment is one of the four Pillars of the Employment Guidelines which lie at the heart of the European Employment Strategy. Although the question of women's self-employment is not ...

In 2005, in the EU-25, 22.2 million people aged 55-64 were in employment, 1.6 million were unemployed and 28.5 million were inactive. Increasing the participation of seniors in the labour ...

On its Stockholm summit in March 2001, the European Council set the following objectives for EU's employment rates : 67 % for women and men together and 57 % for women to be attained by 2005. 50 % by the year 2010 for ...

The year 2003 is the European Year of People with Disabilities. The preliminary results of the ad hoc module on employment of disabled people of the Spring 2002 round of the Labour Force Survey provide the following estimates ...

This essay evaluates regional imbalances in the European labour market. It shows how the employment rate varies and develops throughout the EU. Additionally, it examines the impact of education on employment growth. To ...

In the second quarter 2005, 63.7% of the working age population (15-64 years of age) held a job or other business activity in the EU-25, compared to 63.1% one year before. Among member states, Spain (from 60.9% ...

The employment rate rose for both men and women, by 0.5 and 0.9 percentage points respectively in one year. In the first quarter 2006, 71.1% of men and 56.7% of women aged 15 to 64 years were employed in the ...