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The article reports an increase in wages in the eurozone in 2018 after years of stagnation which baffled economists. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi has welcomed the trend and has announced the discontinuation of the central bank's stimulus measure by the end of the year. Several theories emerged for the wage increase including the acute labor shortage in Germany, the decline of unions, and globalization.

The article discusses the role of artificial intelligence as solution for shortage of workers in Eastern Europe. Robots help create new types of jobs as Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland show agility and competition in businesses after becoming low-cost manufacturing hubs for Europe. Factories in Eastern Europe are already well automated and some prefer brisk business as companies around the region accelerate an automation drive.

This article reports on the labor shortage in Europe in the high technology sector. Having struggled with high unemployment for the past thirty years, Europe finds itself in the unusual position of being forced to look for engineers and others qualified in the more specialized manufacturing processes and services outside of Europe. Some companies have even had to relocate in order to find qualified employees.

The article presents two pieces reporting on jobs in the United States and on the employment situation in Europe. Examined are the Labor Department's jobs report for February 2007, showing that U.S. employers had filled 97,000 jobs and that the unemployment rate had declined slightly. An article reports on a shortage of skilled labor afflicting Europe in early 2007.

The article focuses on the work of Jean-Pierre Lemonnier, president of temporary staffing company Manpower France. The author reports that part-time work and temporary jobs are becoming the richest source of new employment across Europe after being long considered taboo among Europeans. The article includes comments from Lemonnier regarding his work.

The article presents a comparison of the unemployment rate and labor force participation in the U.S. and Europe.

The article reports that multinational firm CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd. sees the value of labor pool in Europe.

The author discusses inequality between capital and labor as economic growth in Europe depends on the recovery in household consumption. He states that the European countries depend on two factors to increase investment and employment which include attempts to lower labor costs and enhance business confidence through consolidation of public finances. He says that the strategies lead to unequal distribution of benefits which make employees leave their job.

Whirlpool said on Friday that it planned to cut 5,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force in North America and Europe, because of soft demand and higher costs for materials. The company, the world's biggest appliance maker, also on Friday cut its 2011 earnings outlook drastically and reported third-quarter results that missed expectations, hurt by higher costs and a slowdown in emerging markets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unemployment rate in the European Union pushed higher in April, indicating that nascent signs of economic recovery had yet to be felt in the labor market. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the 16 countries that use the euro currency rose to 9.2 percent in April, the highest rate since September 1999, from 8.9 percent in March, the Eurostat agency, the bloc's statistics office, said Tuesday. In April 2008, the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For a long time, Germany has been good to Katarzyna, a 28-year-old Polish woman who works in a pharmacy in Frankfurt during the day and cleans houses in the evenings. In six years, she has earned enough money to buy a sporty Audi and an apartment in Poland, while still having enough cash to travel widely in Europe. Millions of other Poles made similar moves from their home country, especially in the four years since Poland joined the European Union. But now a strong economy in Poland, and an increasingly acute labor shortage, are beckoning migrants like Katarzyna back. She is moving to Warsaw in July. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cogitates on the implications of the extensive outsourcing on the employment in the U.S. and Europe.

Reports on the closing of the Hydro Aluminum Motorcast factory in Leeds, England and how the loss of jobs did not hurt a city prepared. Decision of the parent company, Norsk Hydro, to move the unskilled jobs to Hungary to take advantage of the cheaper costs; How the city of Leeds acted proactively to keep unemployment rates low; Decision to create jobs when it recognized that industrial plants would be moving to Eastern European countries; Creation of 10,000 information technology jobs since the mid-1990s; Suggestion that the rest of Europe could use Leeds as a model to ease unemployment.

Discusses the importance of immigration to Europe to support labor shortages. Thought that as the European Union (EU) encroaches on national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction has set in; Suggestion of the European Commission that the EU should shift its policy to the selective encouragement of economic migration; Sentiments of Europeans to immigrants.

Discusses the issues surrounding labor demands for skilled workers in Europe, including European antipathy toward immigrants. Unemployment and the shortage of high-technology workers; Impact on Web-related and Internet businesses; Pressure on governments to make exceptions to immigration rules; Expectation that Germany will be most affected by the labor shortages.

Discusses the labor supply in Europe with reference to unemployment in Europe. Benefits of full-time employment; Protection of persons with jobs at the expense of the unemployed; Insecurity that results from unemployment; Comparison of part-time work in the United States and Europe; Views of Guenter Wissewede, head of the Institute for Economic and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne in Germany.