'This research note explores the potential for upscaling skills among women and men in the EU labour market. A gender perspective highlights important differences between women and men with low levels of qualifications in .their employability, their situation in the labour market and their access to job-related training. An intersectional perspective reveals the numerous experiences of low-qualified people in precarious employment and the factors that exacerbate vulnerabilities of certain groups of people in accessing quality employment and upscaling skills.'
'This, the sixth annual European Jobs Monitor report, looks in more detail at recent shifts (from the second quarter (Q2) of 2011 to 2016 Q2) in employment at Member State and aggregate EU levels. Part 1 of the report applies a ‘jobs-based approach’ to describe employment shifts quantitatively (how many jobs were created or destroyed and in what sectors) and qualitatively (what kinds of jobs they were, primarily in terms of average hourly pay). Part 2, a more analytical section, discusses the role that occupations play in structuring European wage inequality, and to what extent the observed patterns of job polarisation and upgrading have contributed to wage inequality trends in the last decade.'