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Risks to job quality from digital technologies: are industrial relations in Europe ready for the challenge?

The paper extends the debate about the future of work beyond employment and pay, to a consideration of job quality more broadly.

Tackling inflation: learning from the European Central Bank's six lapses

While mistakes unduly constrained rate hikes, gradual tightening is the right approach along with a new instrument to address energy bottlenecks.

Shinzo Abe’s economic legacy: a glass half full

Abenomics has fallen short in many ways, but Japan has still largely coped with an aging society while maintaining a high level of income equality.

Cross-border telework in the EU: fab or fad?

Europe should investigate the possibility of ‘digital frontier worker’ status for cross-border remote workers.

How effective has the pandemic emergency purchase programme been in ensuring debt sustainability?

The ECB’s pandemic emergency purchase programme has improved substantially the debt dynamics of euro-area countries, with durable effects.

Russia’s huge trade surplus is not a sign of economic strength

Russia has recorded a record trade surplus, but more than half of its increase is due to the collapse of imports.

A grand bargain to steer through the European Union’s energy crisis

The current crisis looks set to leave behind it a radically different system, but what that system will look like remains an open question

A gender perspective on artificial intelligence and jobs: The vicious cycle of digital inequality

How do gender stereotypes and gendered work segregation, and digitalisation and automation, result in a vicious cycle of digital gender inequality?

The impact of artificial intelligence on the nature and quality of jobs

Policymakers should strengthen the role of social partners in the adoption of AI technology to protect workers’ bargaining power.

Closing the gender gap for self-employed women in the European Union

Self-employed women are at a wealth disadvantage, according to ECB household finance data, and thus have more to gain from policies that spur saving.

COVID-19 in the European Union: health impacts and effects on economic activity

What matters when it comes to managing the pandemic is to prevent intensive-care admissions and deaths arising from COVID-19.

What role for China in the global refining crunch?

Despite high prices, China’s substantial spare oil refining capacity remains restricted.

A possible G7 price cap on Russian oil: issues at stake

A price cap on Russian oil might improve the current western sanctions regime, but effectiveness will depend on the west’s willingness

Can working solo be good for entrepreneurs?

The self-employed are a diverse group, but they can help us better understand the drivers of well-being at work and help design better policies.

Mapping banking centres globally since 1970

Legal options for a green golden rule in the European Union’s fiscal framework