Global tax evasion: the good and the bad news
A genuine assault on individual and corporate tax evasion, Jayati Ghosh writes, would tap vast revenue resources.
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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.
When it comes to violence in the workplace, women and frontline workers are disproportionately the victims.
The European Union stands at a fork in the road when it comes to its treatment of external migrant workers.
Banks profit from the European Central Bank´s interest-rate policy at the expense of taxpayers.
To really end labour shortages, Ankita Anand writes, Europe must transform its contract with the global south.
Improving job quality is key to addressing labour shortages In the European Union.
China’s development model has often been positioned as an alternative to the long-dominant ‘Washington consensus’.
The age of unbridled free trade is rightfully over. Solidarity should be the new leitmotif of trade policy.
Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.
Ukraine’s post-war recovery will require concerted, long-term EU commitment, leveraging substantial private investment.