Changing labour markets, changing social protection
How can Europe and the United States adapt social protection system to meet the vastly developing labour market?
- Publishing date
- 09 November 2022
Social protection is the mechanism that addresses amongst other issues, poverty reduction, education, health, social inclusion, and empowerment. In the United States and in Europe social protections were initially designed between 1880 and 1945 with the full-time, dependent employee in mind.
In this episode of The sound of economics, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Anke Hassel and Kathleen Romig to discuss the challenge that confronts the United States and Europe, in the context of a changing labour market and the increase in nonstandard work.
- Theme
- Microeconomic policies
- Keyword
- digital economy future of work
- Language
- English
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