This essay starts, after a short introduction on the importance and dimensions of "inclusive growth", with a brief empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite sobering and gives rise to the question: why is it so? The...

Industry 4.0 and robots are said to speed up productivity thereby inducing a 'quantum leap' towards the 'end of work' and calling for a complete change of social security institutions that have so far been closely linked to employment. Unconditional basic income is the cry of the day, curiously...

In den vergangenen Jahren . wurde die Arbeitsmarktpolitik in einigen Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union (EU) grundlegend reformiert, in anderen EU-Ländern sind solche Reformen im Gange oder stehen zur Debatte. Kennzeichnend für diese Entwicklung ist weder die Einführung neuer...

As the EU economies and societies become increasingly integrated, and as labour market behaviour patterns converge across borders, the EU strives to develop a substantially common social identity. To this end, it seeks to promote the development of a sustainable institutional framework which...