Event
09 July 2019
AI, robots and platform workers: What future for European welfare states?
At this event, we launch the study, "Digitalisation and European welfare states", authored by Georgios Petropoulos, J. Scott Marcus, Nicolas Moës, and
Welfare policy
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Book
09 July 2019
Digitalisation and European welfare states
EU policymakers must find answers to pressing questions: if technology has a negative impact on labour income, how will the welfare state be funded? H
Blog post
18 February 2019
Universal basic income and the Finnish experiment
The preliminary results on the Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment in Finland, and what they mean for the long-standing questions over the potenti
Event
24 January 2019
Towards a new social contract
This event will look at a a proposal for a new social contract put forward by the World Bank.
Podcast
24 January 2019
Backstage: Policy principles for a new social contract
This episode of The Sound of Economics features Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas in conversation with Maurizio Bussolo and Bernadette Ségol about in
Event
04 December 2018
Civil society for the digital age
What is the place of civil society in the digital age as well as the role of technology in society?
Article
18 July 2018
The role of independent expertise in legislative process
Testimony before the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).
Blog post
19 June 2018
Understanding (the lack of) German public investment
An array of data suggests that there is a general lack of investment by all branches of the German government, despite running budget surpluses for se
External publication
12 March 2018
Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s poverty target?
Why is it so hard to reach the Europe 2020 ‘poverty’ target? What does the poverty indicator actually measure? Why was the Lisbon strategy goal of tac
Opinion piece
08 February 2018
Climate policies risk increasing social inequality
The aggressive political interventions needed to effectively counteract climate change will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, if social concer
Event
04 December 2017
Flexicurity and labour market reforms in Europe
This event will discuss the potential of the flexicurity model as employment strategy and the way it could be implemented in European countries to be
Event
26 October 2017
Growth, productivity and social progress in Europe
On 26 October, Bruegel is organizing an interactive brainstorming seminar on Growth, Productivity and Social Progress in Europe. This is a closed-door
Blog post
18 October 2017
Revision of the Posted Workers Directive misses the point
Instead of the futile proposed revision, the focus should be on the fight against bogus self-employment, social security fraud and undeclared work.
Blog post
31 August 2017
EU posted workers: separating fact and fiction
After President Macron’s recent tour of Central and Eastern European countries, EU posted workers are getting a lot of attention. However, a major ref
Article
29 August 2017
Could revising the posted workers directive improve social conditions?
This presentation was delivered in Brussels on 31 January 2017 at a hearing of think-tanks, to advise the European Parliament on the revision of the P
Event
12 July 2017
Perspectives on Universal Basic Income
At this event, we discussed the possible benefits but also the possible disadvantages of Universal Basic Income.