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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
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16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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EUROPA - Public Opinion analysis - Eurobarometer Special Surveys


European Employment and Social Policy [31 July 2009]
Summary
Fieldwork: June 2009
Publication: July 2009
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb_special_en.htm
or
SUMMARY
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_316_sum_en.pdf
[full-text, 88 pages]

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................ 2
1. EUROPEANS' EMPLOYMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ECONOMIC
CRISIS.......................................................................................... 5
1.1 The employment situation .............................................................. 5
1.3 Europeans feel the worst of the economic crisis is yet to come .... 14
1.4 Expectations about the level of unemployment insurance ............ 16
2. EUROPEANS' FUTURE EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS ........................ 18
2.1 Europeans' confidence in having or finding a job has declined ..... 18
2.2 The importance of qualifications and professional experience...... 24
2.3 Europeans are more geographically mobile .................................. 27
3. THE ROLE OF THE EU................................................................... 31
3.1 Awareness of the European Social Fund and European Globalisation
Adjustment Fund.......................................................................... 31
3.2 More Europeans feel the ESF's budget allocation is too little ........ 33
3.3 The impact of the EU on employment and social affairs ................ 35
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................. 39
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