When Corporate Mergers Hurt Workers, Europe Must Act
Europe's merger watchdogs generally ignore labour market impacts, but there is a possibility for change.
Wouter Zwysen
Limited options to change employers keep wages low
Concentrated labour markets and non-compete agreements erode worker bargaining power.
Labour shortages – an opportunity to rebalance bargaining power?
Labour shortages have become one of the most pressing issues in the labour market across Europe.
Migrant labour in the ‘gig’ economy: progress or trap?
Platform work is often presented as a stepping-stone for migrant workers. It may not however feel so benign to them.
Wage inequality in Europe—and why it is falling
Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.
Women at work: doing different jobs, still unequal
Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.
Reconstruction: time for transformative ideas
As the world inches back to normality, the Covid-19 crisis highlights deep structural inequalities and the urgent need for bold, systemic solutions to tackle climate change, social injustice, and economic precarity.
Not so much a shortage of skills as a shortage of pay
Labour shortages following the pandemic have increased most and are most severe in jobs with lower wages and poorer conditions.
Pay gaps between firms driving wage inequality
Inter-firm differences are not only widening wage gaps but also threaten wider social division among workers.
Performance-related pay and the gender pay gap
Performance pay might be thought to reward merit—but it mainly rewards men.