Work, Future of Work, Precarity, the Placement Generation

About half a century after the first wave of emigration from Europe’s then “poor house”, the debt crisis threatens Greece again with a mass exodus.More ...

An Interview with Professor Dr Meinhard Miegel and Professor Dr Oskar NegtMore ...

“Hauptsache Arbeit” (i.e. work is the main thing) is the title of a new exhibition in Bonn. That is probably true – in spite of the fact that work has changed a great deal in the last 60 years.More ...

The journalist Jürgen Clever talks to Professor Jenö Koltay, the deputy director of the Institute of Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.More ...

Although there are quite a few factors involved, Europeans – especially Western Europeans – owe their high standard of living to their distinct focus on gainful employment. By Stefanie Wahl More ...

There is a silent army of domestic staff and cleaners, nannies and carers working in Germany's private households – most of them migrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. By Helma LutzMore ...

Reinhold Vetter, Correspondent with the Trade Journal Handelsblatt for Middle Eastern and South Eastern Europe, talks to Irena Wóycicka, Head of the Social Research Department at the Gdansk Institute for Market Economics, Warsaw Branch, and former Polish deputy minister of labour.More ...