Category: Economy - Page 10

The imperative of reforming EU economic governance

Finance ministers must forestall reapplication of the existing fiscal rules, to prevent a disastrous renewal of austerity.

Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.

We need to find a path to peaceful coexistence and co-operation, fixing the social and economic damage of the last three decades

Tesla faces its first ever strike after refusing to negotiate with the Swedish trade union IF Metall.

A genuine assault on individual and corporate tax evasion, Jayati Ghosh writes, would tap vast revenue resources.

The European Union Year of Skills needs to deliver a ‘right to training’ for workers.

A rebalanced distribution of paid and unpaid work is a prerequisite of gender equality in employment.

In segregated labour markets, women need hypothetical comparators and collective support to make equal-pay claims.

The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.

Tens of thousands of deaths in Europe are caused each year by exposure of workers to hazardous chemicals.

Collective bargaining does not only improve workers’ wages and conditions. It also enhances company performance.

Germany is indeed ‘sick’, Peter Bofinger writes—but not for the reason most commentators think.

Finance has become the driving force behind most decision-making. We seem to have unlearned politics.

Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.

For decades in the US, unions have atrophied while inequality has soared. The UAW strike may be a sign of changing times.

Stubborn attachment to monetary tightening as the cure for inflation will needlessly sacrifice economic activity and jobs.