Event
10 May 2018
This event will discuss what impact digitisation will have on the employment opportunities for young people and how we can safeguard their rights.
Working paper
18 April 2018
In theory, robots can directly displace workers from performing specific tasks (displacement effect). But they can also expand labour demand through t
Event
18 April 2018
This event looked at the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on employment, wages and EU economic policy.
Blog post
11 April 2018
It is only in the last decade that the EU has had an active policy to reintegrate workers who lost their jobs as a result of globalisation, through th
Policy brief
22 March 2018
With the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the EU now has an instrument to help workers negatively affected by trade find new jobs. Howev
Blog post
05 February 2018
Both in Europe and the US, economists are starting to notice how the economies of cities have been sometimes diverging from the economies of states. W
Event
02 February 2018
The event, organised by Bruegel in cooperation with the Institute for International Affairs will discuss these and related questions and will also fea
Blog post
25 January 2018
Historically high labour shortages in most central-eastern and north-western EU countries suggest that the immigration of central Europeans to north-w
Book
22 January 2018
Migration is one of the most divisive policy topics in today’s Europe. In this publication, the authors assess the immigration challenge that the EU f
Podcast
19 January 2018
This instalment of the Sound of Economics features Bruegel fellows Reinhilde Veugelers, Simone Tagliapietra and J. Scott Marcus explain how European i
Blog post
20 December 2017
While it is always tempting to try to predict future patterns in the automation of European industries, it is also insightful to assess key dimensions
Podcast
14 December 2017
How has immigration become an essential part of the EU? What incentives should be made to encourage EU intra-mobility? Why and how should we proceed t
Event
13 December 2017
This event discussed the impact and integration of migrants as well as national and European immigration policy challenges.
Blog post
07 December 2017
Morocco is an interesting case of structural labour market disequilibrium despite respectable growth, and illustrates the issues facing the region’s o
Event
04 December 2017
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
Blog post
29 November 2017
This post studies why wages in Germany have not borne strong increases despite a relatively strong labour market. I list four reasons why announcing t