Category: Economy - Page 8

No ‘business as usual’ for European industry

The choices EU leaders make in the coming years will determine whether European industry has a long-term future.

Mario Draghi’s report needs to address competitiveness from a systemic perspective, focusing on underlying productivity.

Standardisation of how artificial intelligence is deployed in the workplace is not a technical but a political matter.

Sixty years on from Polanyi’s death and 80 since his classic text appeared, it is time to reassess the Hungarian social scientist’s legacy.

After protracted battles, a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence is finally ready for endorsement.

This week MEPs vote on the revised EU economic-governance framework. The stakes could not be higher.

Platform work is often presented as a stepping-stone for migrant workers. It may not however feel so benign to them.

Boeing’s self-inflicted woes hold broader lessons for contemporary corporate governance.

Institutional and economic factors supporting workers are offsetting well-adverted global trends affecting wage distribution.

Amid increasing headwinds, EU trade policy should focus less on the ‘invisible hand’, more on the hand of friendship.

Narendra Modi aims to return to power, Jayati Ghosh writes, against a backdrop of unprecedented inequality.

Having seen off the platforms’ obstruction, the battle moves to how the directive will be transposed and implemented.

Because women have fewer options and their work gets devalued, job segregation accounts for half the gender pay gap in Europe.

Europe needs massive investment, Peter Bofinger writes. Yet the ECB’s restrictive monetary stance means it is set to fall this year.

A presumption of employment and rights on algorithmic management are at the heart of the revived platform-work directive.

Collective bargaining can redress the vulnerability of workers who find themselves in a buyers’ labour market.