This unfavourable evolution may be explained primarily by the joint influence of two factors: the low employment level in the Union, especially among young people, women and older workers; and sluggish productivity growth in the Union’s economy, caused by such factors as the low rate of business investment, insufficient use of new technologies and failure to take up information and communications technologies fast enough.
This unfavourable evolution may be explained primarily by the joint influence of two factors: the low employment level in the Union, especially among young people, women and older workers; and sluggish productivity growth in the Union's economy, caused by such factors as the low rate of business investment, insufficient use of new technologies and failure to take up information and communications technologies fast enough.