The aim of EEEPBs is to provide readers with short, critical, policy-oriented analyses of topical issues relating to European employment and the economy.

Launched in 2005, the policy briefs have covered a number of important subjects including the European minimum wage policy, smart growth, accession to the euro area, and the role of demand-side policies in reducing unemployment.

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4/2007
Gerald Klec: Flexicurity and the reform of the Austrian severance-pay system

3/2007
Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt: No-vacation nation USA - a comparison of leave and holiday in OECD countries

2/2007
Thorsten Schulten and Andrew Watt: European minimum wage policy - a concrete project for a social Europe

1/2007
Iain Begg and Allan Larsson: The 2007 European challenge: taking world leadership for smart growth

3/2006
Béla Galgóczi and Gintare Kemekliene: Eurozone: 'a club of rich countries with slow growth-dynamic poor countries, please keep out'?

2/2006
Andrew Watt: Assessing the reassessment of the OECD jobs Strategy: eppur si muove ?

1/2006
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: Monetary policy tightening in a fragile recovery: are the ECB's concerns about wage formation justified?

8/2005
Wolfgang Kowalsky: The European Commission's Services Directive: criticisms, myths and prospects

7/2005
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: A trap for the European Central Bank: low growth potential as a self-fulfilling prophecy

6/2005
Ronald Janssen: Social Europe and the challenge of globalisation

5/2005
Andrew Watt: The on-going saga on the Stability and Growth Pact: is the Spring 2005 reform good for growth and jobs?

4/2005
Ronald Janssen and Andrew Watt: Innovation and Competitiveness: Comparing the UK, Germany and the US

3/2005
Gustav A. Horn: Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Policy

2/2005
Ronald Janssen: The broad economic policy guidelines 2005 - 2007: A basis for European economic revival?

1/2005
Andrew Watt and Ronald Janssen: The high growth and innovation agenda of Lisbon: The role of aggregate demand policies