When President Donald Trump notified the other signatory countries to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that the United States did not intend to become party to the agreement, among the thirty chapters of text left on the cutting floor was a chapter on labor. The TPP labor chapter, while...

This article discusses the fast track procedure and its recent use in the context of environmental and labor issues. The procedure, which allows the President to negotiate international trade agreements and bypass Congressional amendments, emerged in 1997 as an element of a larger debate...

This article aims at establishing to what extent the renewed EU economic and social policy coordination cycles offer opportunities to uphold and further develop the Union’s social objectives. First, it seeks to examine to what extent the legal frameworks in which macroeconomic and social...

European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a contract, informal self-employment, and unemployment (secondary jobs are not accounted for). Consistently...

In recent years, European countries have faced a number of challenges like, for example, the technological change, the acceleration of globalisation, the considerable ageing of European societies. In this context, a more flexible labour market combined with satisfactory levels of security is...

As regards labour-market reform and employment policies, the European Union currently touts the concept of 'flexicurity', aiming at simultaneously enhancing both flexibility and security in the labour market in view of the globalization of the economy and far-reaching demographic developments...