Podcast
29 May 2018
Robots: Positive or negative for EU employment?
Bruegel research fellow Georgios Petropoulos features in this episode of ‘The Sound of Economics’ to discuss a study he has co-authored on the impact
Employment
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Event
10 May 2018
Youth up Europe: The future of work: towards safeguarding young people's rights in the era of increased digitisation
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
The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach
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
Robots and artificial intelligence: The next frontier for employment and EU economic policy
This event looked at the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence on employment, wages and EU economic policy.
Blog post
11 April 2018
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Time for a reset
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
The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Easing the pain from trade?
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
Economies of States, Economies of Cities
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
Europe’s immigration and integration challenges: Financial and labour market dimensions
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
The ever-rising labour shortages in Europe
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
People on the move: migration and mobility in the European Union
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
Remaking Europe
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
The growing presence of robots in EU industries
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
Inclusive Europe: a journey towards integration
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
Better policies for people on the move
This event discussed the impact and integration of migrants as well as national and European immigration policy challenges.
Blog post
07 December 2017
Moroccan job market issues, and labour trends in the Middle East and North Africa
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
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