Separate and unequal: gender segregation at work
Gender segregation in sectors, occupations and roles still sees women persistently losing out.
Economy
Analysis and debate on the European economy: growth and investment, fiscal and monetary policy, trade, industry and inequality.
Will tech layoffs silence or galvanise tech workers?
Mass layoffs have hit large technology companies. Previously well-paid workers suddenly became the target of brutal firings.
Sustainable competitiveness needs a social dimension
Isabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu
Glancing across the Atlantic, austerity and deregulation will make Europe neither competitive nor green.
How the banking lobby diluted EU regulation
EU institutions have taken a position weakening international standards and risking bank stability.
Platforms and their presumptions of power
Whether the presumption of employment would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate.
The role of public debt in the ‘new normal’
A Schumpeterian perspective provides new insights for fiscal policy in Europe, Peter Bofinger writes.
Social dialogue in central and eastern Europe
Union recognition can be a tough battle in EU member states in central and eastern Europe.
Military secrets and the World Trade Organization
A world at peace depends on making knowledge which could be of military as well as commercial value a public good.
Behind Britain’s strike wave
The Tory government, Paul Mason writes, is a victim of the skills shortages its ‘free markets’ have engendered.
Unions are giving workers a European voice in the crisis
Isabelle Barthès and Patricia Velicu
Trade unions have been winning battles across Europe to halt the erosion of real wages but can’t win this war alone.
Corporate power: arbitrage in a fractured world
At Davos the corporate elite are discussing a more co-operative world—yet their arbitrage relies on its rifts.
How not to deal with a debt crisis
Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.
Will NextGenerationEU assist Europe’s cohesion?
Addressing Europe’s huge challenges requires treating Europe as more than the sum of its national parts.
Gendering labour time—regulating domestic work
Too few countries have ratified the ILO convention on domestic work. Too many don’t see the need.
Democracy and the future of work
Anxiety about the state of democracy amid political polarisation should direct us to an unexpected answer—economic citizenship.
Pay transparency yes, but we need more for equal pay
The gender pay gap is stubborn because several factors underpin it. Action is needed on all of them.