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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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Peggy Kaloumenou

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 ...

2025-05-14 Impact of health and skills on the risk of weak labour market attachment

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Marta Palczyńska

Katarzyna Lipowska

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This study examines how skills use influences labor market attachment among individuals with health limitations using European Union Labour Force Survey data from 2022. Our analysis reveals that digital and social skills use significantly improve employment prospects within this population, while cognitive skills show a ...

2022-09-28 How can labour market policies reduce gender gaps in youth employment?

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Despite significant improvements in recent decades, women's employment rates and wages lag behind those of men in all European countries. However, the magnitude of these gaps differs significantly across countries. Presented policy brief reviews policy measures that could reduce the gender gaps in the labour ...

2022-07-05 Patterns of labor market reforms: a regional approach to the Italian “Jobs Act”

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This paper contributes to the existing literature on wage subsidies, EPL reforms and their interaction focusing on regional disparities within the same country. The interest of the exercise relies in highlighting different reactions to the same reforms of the same institutional framework, depending on local ...