In response to the financial crisis of 2008, governments across Europe used public money to stabilise the system and bail out the banks. Public spending also helped maintain the European economy ...
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The Belgian government has made ‘competitiveness’ into its Holy Grail. This quest was regulated by the Law “on the promotion of employment and preventive safeguarding of ...
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Female managers in the EU earn almost one-quarter (23.4%) less, on average, than their male counterparts. In other words, women in management earn just 77 cents for every euro a man makes per ...
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Béla Galgóczi, Senior Researcher at the ETUI The average annual gross wage in the Czechia in 1993 was just over EUR 2000, the equivalent of 13% of the German average. By 2008, this figure had ...
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By Professor Danny Dorling Whether measured by the Gini coefficient for OECD countries, or by the take of the top 10%, income inequality rates in the UK today are the worst in all of Europe. The ...
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By Ronald Janssen Wages across Europe have been suffering much in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. Before the crisis, nominal wages were increasing at a rate of 3 to 3.5%. Since then ...
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This blog piece was originally posted on Social Europe. By Carlos Vacas-Soriano and Enrique Fernández-Macías, 21 March 2017. EU-wide income inequality declined notably prior to 2008, driven by a ...
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From the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) in Spain Economic recovery must also reach households. But price rises are aggravating the loss of purchasing power of wages, pensions and social ...
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By Luca Visentini Why have wages in Europe collapsed in the last decade? Because of the combined impact of globalisation, the financial crisis and, above all, the austerity measures that followed ...
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By Luc Triangle It is high time for a pay rise. For years now, wages have been considered as the sole cost adjustment for recovery. But wage cuts and wage moderation did not bring back recovery. ...
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