Past Event
COVID-19 and the shift to working from home: differences between the US and the EU
What changes has working from home brought on for workers and societies, and how can policy catch up?
Past Event
What changes has working from home brought on for workers and societies, and how can policy catch up?
Opinion
Introducing average over time without defining what this means is counterproductive and current levels of inflation in the US will sooner or later expose this weakness in the Fed’s new strategy.
Podcast
An overview of economic policy and beyond in 2021.
Blog Post
A selection of charts from Bruegel’s weekly newsletter, analysis of the year and what it meant for the economy in Europe and the world.
Blog Post
A European initiative strengthening rights for gig workers is welcome. A digitised economy should also be inclusive.
Blog Post
Skills, data and financing shortcomings constrain artificial-intelligence innovation in Europe.
Podcast
The effects of digital technology on work and wages.
Past Event
How can European countries phase out the COVID-19 support measures without having a negative impact on productivity and financial stability?
Blog Post
Online job postings indicate that demand from top tech firms for frontier IT skills is about double their demand for other IT skills. This could indicate increasing concentration of skills in a few firms, with other firms left behind.
Blog Post
Policymakers should act to deal with labour-market concentration trends that potentially harm workers, especially gig workers and the self-employed.
Blog Post
Between 2007 and 2020, the balance sheets of the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Fed have all increased about sevenfold. But inflation stayed low throughout the 2010s. This was possible due to decreasing money velocity and the money multiplier. However, a continuation of asset purchasing programs by central banks involves the risk of higher inflation and fiscal dominance.
Blog Post
More remote working in the wake of the pandemic could exacerbate wage inequality, with young workers, women and the low educated potentially losing out.