The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Easing the pain from trade?
The European Union created the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in 2007 to co-fund, together with EU member states, policies to help workers negatively affected by globalisation find new...
View ArticleThe European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Time for a reset
A version of this blog post was published in voxeu.org Conventional wisdom holds that trade liberalisation benefits all countries, though not necessarily equally. Within countries, however, while most...
View ArticleThe impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour...
The authors of this working paper study the impact of industrial robots on employment and wages in six European Union countries, which make up 85.5 percent of the EU industrial robots market. In...
View ArticleRobots: Positive or negative for EU employment?
Technological advancements continue to drive change in every industry. In a recent working paper co-written with Francesco Chiacchio and David Pichler, Bruegel research fellow Georgios Petropoulos...
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Robots, ICT and EU employment
We are currently experiencing an unprecedented digital transformation, driven by rapid technological progress. Disruptive technologies based on ICT (Information and Communications Technology), robots...
View ArticleItaly’s “Dignity Decree”
The recently approved “Dignity Decree” is the first legislative act of the new Italian government in the area of the labour relations and, according to Luigi Di Maio, Minister for Labour and Economic...
View ArticleThe impact of artificial intelligence on employment
This contribution is a chapter of the book Work in the Digital Age, from the Policy Network, published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. Looking at the labour displacement and...
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Youth unemployment: Common problem, different solutions?
This blog post was prepared for the Rome MED – Mediterranean Dialogues report 2018. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has some of the highest total and youth unemployment rates in the...
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Manufacturing employment, international trade, and China
This paper was originally published by Policy Center for the New South. The objective of this paper is to better understand the evolution of manufacturing employment across the world. Manufacturing...
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How COVID-19 is laying bare inequality
The COVID-19 crisis shows how the more vulnerable socio-economic groups suffer from a greater risk of financial exposure, and also from greater health risks, and worse housing conditions during the...
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