Past Event
At this event Margrethe Vestager will touch on strategic autonomy, digital regulation and the implications of the Green Deal on competition.
Blog Post
Overlapping rules in the digital economy require cooperation between national regulatory authorities; a practical arrangement based on case information, case allocation and case resolution would ensure consistency and effective enforcement.
Policy Contribution
A review of changes in the way we work and discuss the need to update worker classification exploring the rationale and options for extending protection against discrimination and harassment, and the right to collective action, to more workers, also discussing the special case of platform work.
Past Event
Improving understanding of productivity, its drivers and the way we measure it.
Podcast
What is job quality and why does it matter?
Past Event
Major economies are addressing the challenges brought by digital trade in different ways, resulting in diverging regulatory regimes. How should we view these divergences and best deal with them?
Past Event
Invitation-only event featuring Brad Smith, President and Vice Chair of Microsoft who will discuss regulating big tech in the context of Europe's digital transformation
Opinion
A relatively new fintech market, BNPL is currently not regulated in the EU, meaning that consumers do not have the same protection level as they do for other credit products.
Working Paper
For many newly emerging jobs, labour-market mismatches prevail as workers and firms are unable to apply precise occupation taxonomies and training lags behind workforce needs. We report on how data can enable useful foresight about skill requirements and training needs, even when that data has not been collected for this express purpose.
Blog Post
The European Commission will enforce digital competition rules against big tech; internally, it should ensure a dedicated process and teams; externally, it should ensure cooperation with other jurisdictions and coherence with other digital policies.
Policy Contribution
To improve wellbeing at work, job quality policy should pay more attention to imbalances in job content – like high workloads and low autonomy – and not just working conditions. Outcomes of low-quality jobs, such as burnout, need to be monitored at the European level.
Past Event
What changes has working from home brought on for workers and societies, and how can policy catch up?