The paper discusses the possible implications of the challenges facing the "European Social Model" (ESM) caused by the European Monetary Union (EMU) and the enlargement of the EU to include central and eastern European countries. The strains produced by the two challenges on the European welfare...

Social dialogue, one of the main components of decent work, is the process of information and opinion exchange amongst employer, worker, and government representatives to consult, negotiate, and reach agreements on issues that concern them, which reflects the global diversity of the labour...

Systematic and openly accessible data are vital to the scientific understanding of the social, political and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper introduces the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), which has generated a unique, publicly available data set from late March...