Innovative labour market policies and practices

The European Employment Observatory Review: Spring 2009 provides an overview of innovative labour market policies and practices across the 30 European countries covered by the European Employment Observatory (27 European Union Member States, plus candidate countries Croatia and Turkey and EEA country Norway).

In the context of the global economic and financial crisis, the countries covered by the European Employment Observatory were seriously hit, with serious consequences to their labour market situation and performance. Countries responded differently according to their main priorities and possibilities.

The European Commission has responded with a recovery package including simplifying access to funding, to help the Member States design and implement the economic recovery plans.

The review articles, written by the national Sysdem experts, discuss and analyse a variety of selected innovative national labour market practices and policies, across a wide range of employment policies developed and implemented in the countries covered by the Observatory in this context. An underlying theme for policies reviewed in this EEO publication is the response of employment policies to the global economic and financial crisis, confronting them to the employment guidelines, related indicators and European Commission priorities.