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This paper shows that the use of performance pay schemes has risen substantially across Europe from fewer than one-fifth in 2000 up to onethird in 2015, using data from the European Working Conditions Survey and the Structure of Earnings Survey enriched with external contextual data.

This thematic special issue of Transfer titled ‘Transforming care work within an era of changing priorities of care policy’ explores how policy, institutional and market-driven transformations of care regimes across Europe impact upon the quality of care services and the quality of care work. In this special issue, we bring together a range of national perspectives on changing models of care delivery and care work that spans Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the UK, complemented by a transnational analysis of EU health-care policy. Although each contribution situates the specific challenges of precariousness in a particular institutional and market context, by collating these seven perspectives we see common challenges emerging for care workers in diverse settings including residential, domiciliary and long-term care, public and private sectors, liberal and coordinated market economies, as well as southern, northern and eastern Europe with varied traditions of formal and informal familial care.

La crise économique et sociale provoquée par la pandémie de Covid‑19 en Europe et dans le monde est sans précédent depuis au moins la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Avec plus de 40 millions de cas déclarés en Europe en un an, et plus de 900 000 morts (mars 2020 - mars 2021), les gouvernements ont multiplié les mesures d’urgence pour stopper la propagation du coronavirus : confinements des populations, fermeture des commerces non essentiels, fermeture des bureaux, des usines, des écoles, des lieux de culte ; annulation des événements culturels, suspension des compétitions sportives, des festivals ; restrictions des déplacements, fermetures ou contrôle des frontières, clouage au sol des compagnies aériennes… Ces mesures ont mis, à partir du mois de mars 2020, un coup d’arrêt à l’activité économique.

The Covid‑19 pandemic is still causing tremendous human suffering, with serious and long-term implications for people’s health, wellbeing and quality of life as well as for the economy, work and employment overall. In this episode, we will be exploring together with Valeria Pulignano how millions of workers especially in the creative industries have been vulnerable to layoffs and income loss. etui.org/ZUc

This database of joint social dialogue documents is a useful tool that makes it possible to analyse the sectoral social partners’ ‘output’. It enables comparisons to be drawn between sectors, their levels of activity, the topics addressed, and even the approach to social dialogue developed by the social partners.

The aim of this research paper is to review the recent emergence on the European scene of the concept of open strategic autonomy and the consequences it may have for EU action.

Fiscal and monetary policies should remain expansionary to ensure that the nascent labour market recovery continues, allowing a quick recovery to pre-crisis employment levels. Fiscal policy should focus on pressing short-term needs, but also on supporting the EU’s transition to tackle challenges of the future, including the climate crisis and digitalisation.

Europe’s industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place over the past 20 years, comparing the state of play in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. We also compare recent developments in the industrial policy frameworks of these countries, considering European as well as domestic policy levers. We conclude that policy frameworks have largely been ‘defensive’, have lacked foresight, and have had negative distributional effects. Recent shifts in policy have opened up avenues for progress, but the level of ambition remains insufficient and uneven. Major economic incentives and support measures should cohere with a just transition, at the (sub-)national as well as the EU level.