Johannes Schweighofer

Johannes Schweighofer is a senior economist at the Austrian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. His main responsibilities are international labour market policies (EU, OECD, ILO) and research. He is a long-standing member of the EU-Employment Committee and the OECD Working Party on Employment. Recently, he has published articles on labour market effects of immigration, youth employment and the effectiveness of labour market programmes. He writes in a strictly personal capacity.

Johannes Schweighofer

It’s Now Or Never: More Social, Less Europe in 2015!

Johannes Schweighofer 17th December 2014

To put it bluntly: Europe, more precisely, the European Union, has not delivered for decades now. The Union safeguards the interests of the employers and the mandarins from Brussels and 27 other capitals. Basically, this kind of integration is not in the interest of workers, trade unions, consumers et cetera. In the current state of affairs, more […]

The Swiss Referendum, Free Movement, Xenophobia, and Substitution Effects

Johannes Schweighofer 28th February 2014

Of course, it is not easy to strike a fair balance when qualifying the Swiss referendum of 9 February 2014: Is it all about xenophobia of rather rich Swiss people? Or are there “real problems” to be faced? It is all too obvious that the true political motivation of the right wing parties across Europe […]

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Read FEPS new book ‘A new Gender Equality Contract for Europe’!

Just as the European Commission is about to enter its new term and as concerns have been high on the lack of ambition on equality policy, this publication offers a timely reflection on the need for a new gender contract for Europe!
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WSI European Collective Bargaining Report 2023/2024

Real wages in the European Union continued their decline in 2023—despite an acceleration in nominal wage growth and falling inflation rates. For the current year, there are tentative signs only of a slow recovery of the purchasing power of wages. A resumption of real wage growth would stabilise the functional distribution of income and strengthen domestic demand. However, even under this benign scenario, the crisis is not over from workers' point of view: they have borne the brunt of the real income losses associated with the energy-price shock resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The lingering reduction in real wage levels means that wage policy still needs to catch up to contribute to a fairer distribution of the burden between labour and capital.

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It’s Now Or Never: More Social, Less Europe in 2015!

The Swiss Referendum, Free Movement, Xenophobia, and Substitution Effects

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