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Taking Stock of Five Years of the European Employment Strategy

Commission of the European Communities

Document's Table of Contents
Section	Page
1. Introduction	5
1.1. Need for a review	5
1.2. The European Employment Strategy: origin and developments	5
2. Main conclusions from the impact evaluation of the European employment strategy	7
2.1. Structural employment improvements have taken place in the EU	7
2.2. National employment policies converge towards the agreed objectives and guidelines	9
2.2.1. A positive impact on policy overall	9
2.2.2. Employability: now accepted as a life time concept	10
2.2.3. Entrepreneurship: key to job creation	12
2.2.4. Adaptability: complex relationship between flexibility, security and job quality	14
2.2.5. Equal opportunities between women and men: greater awareness but insufficient evaluation	14
2.3. The Luxembourg process proved effective in fostering policy co-operation	15
3. Issues for the debate on the future of the european Employment strategy	17
3.1. Responding to medium-term challenges	17
3.2. Simplifying the guidelines without undermining their effectiveness	19
3.3. Improving governance and partnership	20
3.4. Improving consistency and complementarity between relevant EU processes	21
3.5. Socially responsible investment	21
ANNEXES	22
Annex 1: Evaluation methodology	22
Annex 2: Review of key policy changes in relation to the EES in the areas of active labour market policy, modernisation of work organisation and equal opportunities	23