This paper examines the e®ects of a two-tier reform of the Employment Protection Legislation that increases °exibility at the margin by allowing ¯rms to hire workers on temporary positions and investigates under which conditions temporary jobs are stepping stones to permanent employment. The...

This paper investigates how the labor market institutions that characterize most of the Euro- pean countries a®ect the integration process of younger workers on the labor market. We argue that young workers have private information about their abilities when entering the labor mar- ket....

This brief discusses trends , drivers and policies related to European competitiveness in a global perspective. Over the past two decades, European industry was holding its own against both the old world competition from the US and Japan and newer rivals from China or India. But already before...

COVID-19 has underlined that in a context of recurring pandemics, public health is a basic global public good, the provision of which presupposes effective and timely collective action at global level. It has exposed the limitations of the prevailing framework. This Policy Contribution positions...

Health outcomes in the European Union are good by international standards, even compared to other developed economies, and improved continuously before COVID-19. This reflects the alignment of the objectives of improving health and wellbeing with the overall socio-economic objective of...