The decades-long criticism of the low labour participation among refugees in the Netherlands has been reignited since mid-2022 by the arrival of Ukrainian refugees. This refugee group, protected by an exceptional European Union regulation, is entering the Dutch labour market in significantly larger numbers and at a noticeably faster rate than other (regular) refugee groups. The media, politicians and academics have suggested various explanations for this difference in labour participation. Ho...

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This book was written by members of the Citizens' Convention of the Federal Alliance of European Federalists (FAEF, www.faef.eu). It contains a constitution of only ten articles for a federal Europe, an extensive explanation of those articles and a number of studies that explore aspects of federalism in greater depth.

It is a response to the identity crisis in which the European Union finds itself. A crisis that leads to the disintegration of the EU, with the risk of falling back to t...

The thesis investigates the relevance and effectiveness of pay transparency in reducing the gender pay gap, focusing on the new European directive addressing it. Despite progress, the EU gender pay gap remained at 12.7% in 2021, driven by factors such as sectoral segregation and the "glass ceiling," while some disparities remain unexplained. To uncover these hidden factors, the directive imposes pay transparency obligations on employers, mandating salary disclosures and facilitating employee ...