Laws in most West European countries give workers strong job rights, including the right to advance notice of layoff and the right to severance pay or other compensation if laid off. Many of these same countries also encourage hours adjustment in lieu of layoffs by providing prorated...

This note focuses on the design of fair and work-oriented unemployment benefits, with a specific focus on Belgium, a country in which the design of the unemployment benefits system has become the subject of an intense policy debate in recent years. After taking stock of the most recent...

"Ouvriers et travailleurs sont des figures bien connues, mais leurs contours n'ont cessé d'évoluer aux XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe. À partir d'un réexamen de la manière dont on a écrit leur histoire, le propos de cet ouvrage ambitieux est de redessiner ces figures. Rassemblant une...