EUROFRAME Conference June 2011. Labour markets after the crisis: policy challenges for the EU economies, Helsinki, 10 June 2011

The Conference will focus in 2011 year on EU labour markets. Labour markets have reacted in very different ways in the 2007-2009 crisis with unemployment rates reaching high levels in some countries while remaining almost unchanged in some others. Issues to be covered include: what were the impacts of structural features and reforms on EU labour market performances before the crisis? How did the crisis affect the EU labour markets (role of output, productivity, sector components and policy measures)? Will output growth be sufficient to bring unemployment rates back to their pre-crisis levels? Should policy measures be implemented to support job creation in the short-term? What structural reforms are needed in the longer-term? How to deal with young and older people employment issues? How to adapt the industrial structure in the EU in a global economy? What should be done to bring the EU economies towards fullemployment?