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2026-09-03 Employment of young people with disabilities in the EU

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Young persons with disabilities face many difficulties on the labour market. They are significantly less attached to the labour market, despite expressing a stronger willingness to work than their counterparts without disabilities. Moreover, persons with disabilities face more precarious working conditions. While they enjoy slightly ...

2026-07-31 Survey Results on Disability Employment Support

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The CAWI survey was run in May–June 2026. An invitation to participate was sent out to PES, vocational rehabilitation centres, disability-specific providers, and other organizations working on issues related to employment of persons with disabilities (NGOs, research institutes). English, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish language ...

2026-07-01 Young persons with disabilities on the EU labour market

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Katarzyna Lipowska

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Young persons with disabilities continue to face substantial barriers to labour market participation across the European Union despite demonstrating a strong willingness to work. Drawing on EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) 2024 data and EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) indicators, this policy ...

2026-04-14 Energy performance assessment of the multifamily building stock: The potential of renovation for energy demand reduction, decarbonisation and energy poverty mitigation

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This report examines the potential of building energy renovation and renewable energy integration to support decarbonisation and reduce energy poverty in private multifamily buildings. The analysis covers three pilot cities: Rumia (Poland), Torres Vedras (Portugal), and Piraeus (Greece). Using DREEM energy simulation model for representative ...

2025-12-04 Varieties of domestic energy deprivation in private multi-apartment buildings. Insights from Poland, Portugal and Greece.

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This report presents a framework for measuring local exposure to energy poverty in municipalities and tests it using administrative data from different national contexts. The framework helps municipalities identify which buildings or small areas face the greatest risk of energy deprivation, addressing a common lack ...

2025-12-04 Stakeholders Engagement Strategies for Pilot Municipalities.

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Peggy Kaloumenou

Pedro Palma

Magdalena Wojtuch-Krasuska

Document sets out the strategic and operational framework for engaging key actors involved in addressing energy poverty in three pilot municipalities: Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal). It outlines the importance, objectives, and expected outcomes of stakeholder engagement and explains how these activities ...

2025-11-24 Fostering Inclusion of Workers in Vulnerable Situations: Practices and Policies at Company-Level. Evidence from qualitative interviews in four countries: Norway, Germany, Romania, Poland

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Justyna Katarzyna Bell

Iuliana Precupetu

Elisabeth Ugreninov

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This working paper examines how company-level strategies intersect with national policy contexts to promote the inclusion of vulnerable workers across the three phases of employment: recruitment, career development, and retention. Using qualitative interviews with employers in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania, we explore how organisations ...

2025-11-21 New and changing risks oflabour marketattachment – the future of work

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Mateusz Krząkała

Iga Magda

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This working paper aims to deepen the understanding of the new factors associated with the risk of underemployment, unemployment and inactivity, while at the same time investigating the new dimensions of labour market vulnerability. The first part of the paper provides a descriptive analysis of ...

2025-10-20 Organizational Context of Ethnic Discrimination. Results from a Cross-National Survey Experiment.

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Using a vignette experiment conducted in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania, we analyze whether employers discriminate job candidates based on their origin. We focus on how organizational context and recruitment practices shape hiring decisions. The results show that candidates of foreign origin are invited to ...

2025-10-20 Understanding energy poverty at the local level and the role of multi-apartment buildings

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This report lays the conceptual foundation for addressing energy poverty in Europe, with particular attention to the challenges posed by private multi-apartment buildings (MABs). It reviews EU, national, and local policy frameworks, and highlights barriers such as poor building performance, fragmented ownership and decision-making, financing ...

2025-07-28 How context shapes care-based discrimination in hiring: evidence from a cross-national factorial survey experiment

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This study examines how the candidate’s partnership status and organizational context shapes care-based discrimination in hiring through a cross-national factorial survey experiment conducted in Germany, Norway, Poland, and Romania. Recruiters evaluated fictional job candidates with randomly varied characteristics including gender, partnership status, and parenthood. We ...

2025-07-07 Analysis of indicators and datasets for energy poverty assessment: The case of private multi-family buildings

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This report aims to provide valuable insights for the municipalities of Piraeus (Greece), Rumia (Poland), and Torres Vedras (Portugal) to address energy poverty in private multi-apartment buildings within their territories, within the context of the LOCATEE project. It reviews 68 energy poverty assessment approaches published ...