Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Electronics and electrical engineering company Siemens has announced plans to create 200 new jobs in its factory in Mohelnice. The creation of jobs is a result of a partial relocation of the production from Bad Neustad in Germany (please see Siemens-WO2013). Siemens currently employs about 2,400 people at the Mohelnice site where it produces low-voltage asynchronous motors. In 2012, the number of employees at the site increased by 200 (see Siemens-CZ2012). The company employs a total of 10,500 people in the Czech Republic. The timeline for the expansion plan is not yet available.
Eurofound (2013), Siemens, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 75254, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75254.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
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