This study provides implications for employment policies for the youth, women and the elderly. Korea is currently facing problems with employment, as did European countries during the 1990s and 2000s. In the context of low growth and high rates of unemployment, European countries rolled out...

Welfare spending continues to garner a bigger chunk of the national budget in Korea. This has become a key economic issue attracting much public attention. Fiscal conservatives call for tighter controls on welfare spending, while some are calling for greater welfare spending in order to temper...

Beginning with the Global Europe Initiative in 2006, the EU has conducted active trade policy measures to contribute to economic growth, job creation and social cohesion in the European community. Comprehensive and high-leveled bilateral FTA initiatives, among others, have rapidly emerged as a...

At the EU and national levels, regulatory authorities are implementing or planning reforms of institutional arrangements for financial supervision. In spite of integrated supervision and regulation at the EU level, EU Member States still retain enforceable supervisory power. Recent developments...

(Korean Abstract) 본 연구에서는 EU의 최근 중장기 통상전략의 변화에 주목하였다. 최근 다자주의 약화, 미-중 전략 갈등 심화, 코로나19 팬데믹 및 러시아-우크라이나 전쟁 발발 등의 영향으로 통상환경이 급변하자, EU는 이에...

The global economic crisis has brought back into focus the need for a stable manufacturing base in advanced economies. Hence many debates shed new light on industrial policy with an aim to restore industrial competitiveness. In this context, this study reviews industrial strategies and policies...

Financial Regulation and Supervision at the EU level has been implemented with the formation of the European Single Market. In the 1980s, there was a significant increase in the number of cross-border financial transactions as free capital movement within the EU territories, mutual recognition...

This study analyzes the causes of the European debt crisis and reviews reforms the eurozone has pushed for in order to solve the crisis. It also focuses on the future prospect of economic governance of the eurozone. European debt crisis has spread over the entire eurozone despite the bail out of...

The others argue that the debt crisis of the Southern European countries did not result from excessive social spending, but from failure in creating a positive relationship between the welfare system and economic growth. At this point, we can elicit some policy lessons as follows. First, it is...