The State of Working Europe

Addressing economic and social concerns in Europe
from the perspective of ordinary people

This work seeks to address economic and social concerns in Europe from the perspective of ordinary people. It makes a particular point of comparing EU and US performance, as well as the achievements of different EU Member States.

It is inspired by the State of Working America reports produced by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, but its analysis and advocacy reflects the rather different context of the European Union.

Its main authors are John Morley, Terry Ward and Andrew Watt.

A French version of the report – Travail et emploi en Europe – is available from publishers La Decouverte – see Links.  A 2006 version of the report is planned – see News.

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To download Chapter 1, Incomes & Living Standards, in PDF format click here:

To download Chapter 2, Competitiveness & Growth, in PDF format click here:

To download Chapter 3, Employment, in PDF format click here:

To download Chapter 4, Pensions & Populations, in PDF format click here:

About the authors:

The report’s joint authors have worked on European economic and social policy issues for many years, and draw upon an extensive network of researchers, analysts and expertise.

John Morley was adviser to the Director-General for Employment and Social Affairs in the European Commission until last autumn. He had previously been an economic adviser to the UK government, and a university lecturer in economic and statistics. He is now a special professor at the University of Nottingham Business School.

Terry Ward is director of Alphametrics Ltd. and Applica sprl, research companies specialising in European analysis, based in Cambridge and Brussels. He was previously senior research officer at the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, and a member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group.

Andrew Watt is a senior researcher in the European Trade Union Institute. Between 1990 and 2000 he worked with the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) the Social Science Centre Berlin (WZB) and other research institutes, having studied in the UK, Germany and Switzerland.
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