Tourism in Europe: a new model
Malin Ackholt, Kerstin Howald and Pilar Rato
Rebuilding tourism is a priority but the sector must become more sustainable and resilient, with workers and quality jobs at the heart of recovery.
Economy
Analysis and debate on the European economy: growth and investment, fiscal and monetary policy, trade, industry and inequality.
The marginalisation of Africa
Branko Milanovic argues African countries are not powerless to influence the global economic debates that marginalise them.
Can Europe roll back the normalisation of precarious work for young people?
After the financial crash, the pandemic has rendered the labour market for young people across Europe even more precarious than before.
The debt hawks are flapping their wings
Post-pandemic Europe, Adam Tooze writes, can’t entertain a return to pre-crisis fiscal rules.
Insecure in work, vulnerable to infection
Research by the British TUC has highlighted how the many insecure workers in the UK have been exposed to disproportionate Covid-19 risk.
Pay your taxes where your profit is
The long-simmering demand that multinationals provide country-by-country reporting of their tax payments is coming to a dénouement.
Why we need gender-responsive central banking
The pandemic has deepened gender disparities. Central banks must recognise they have a role to play in reversing these trends.
Public procurement: ending the race to the bottom on workers’ conditions
On International Workers’ Memorial Day, it’s worth remembering that when workers don’t have a say they may lose more than their voice.
Good news for gender equality as we exit the Covid-19 crisis?
The pandemic has had differential impacts on women. Raised consciousness about them must be applied to advance gender equality in recovery measures.
‘Old’ rules and protections for the ‘new’ world of work
A ‘rebuttable presumption of employment’ is emerging as a response to platforms denying their workers employee status.
Does it make sense to question the morality of capitalism?
Keynes warned that ‘practical men’ were often in thrall to some dead economist. In fact many leading economists have agreed on the idea of guaranteed work.
The ‘long Covid’ of work relations and the future of remote work
Nicola Countouris and Valerio De Stefano
The pandemic made us all familiar with ‘social distancing’. Employers are starting to glimpse a future where ‘contractual distancing’ is normalised.
How to stimulate the economy after the lockdown
A ‘helicopter money’ stimulus of direct payments to individuals, as in the US, would be neither well targeted nor transformatory in Europe.
The eurozone won’t work without safe government bonds
The arcane notion of ‘monetary dominance’ lay behind the last eurozone crisis. Unless challenged, it could underlie another one.
A simultaneously expanding and shrinking world
Branko Milanovic warns that the post-pandemic world could see further polarisation in a now global labour market.
Covid-19 and Europe-wide inequality
Between 2017 and 2019, income disparities in Europe decreased. The pandemic stopped that decline.