Temporary agency work has known an important expansion during the last 40 years. Today, 3,3 million agency workers are employed on a daily basis in the European Union. In 2012 they will be 5 million.

Where is our labour market going in the 21st century? How do we handle ageing and globalisation successfully? Can we finally push back mass unemployment? Can we combine more flexibility with more security? Can we make older people work more? Can we finally include foreigners in the labo...

Robert Cox lays focuses on Belgium in his speech on labour market reform at the first Itinera Institute Discussion.

Robert Cox explains why some European countries fail in labour market reforms where others succeed.

The competitiveness of the Belgian economy seems to be endangered. To safeguard our international competitiveness, the social partners want to elaborate control mechanisms securing that the evolution of the Belgian wage cost resembles the trends in our neighbouring countries.