Speech by Jeroen Dijsselbloem at Bruegel Annual Dinner 2016
[Opening] Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today here today your Annual Meetings. A few months ago I spoke to Guntram (Wolf) about this event and about a possible topic for my remarks. There...
View ArticleIncome inequality through decades and books
Frequency of using the word “income inequality” in Google’s text corpora in English, 1900-2008. Source: Google Ngram Viewer. Note: No reliable data after 2008. The amount of online content has...
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Codetermination in Germany – a role model for the UK and the US?
Codetermination or “Mitbestimmung” – the German term for worker participation in a company’s decision making – has recently attracted attention as UK Prime Minister Theresa May and US presidential...
View ArticleAn anatomy of inclusive growth in Europe
Read the Working Paper ‘Some are more equal than others: new estimates of global and regional inequality‘. Access the dataset ‘Global and regional Gini coefficients‘. Key findings Contrary to many...
View ArticleSome are more equal than others: new estimates of global and regional inequality
Access the dataset Global and regional Gini coefficients. Read the Blueprint An anatomy of inclusive growth in Europe. Zsolt Darvas compares four methodologies to estimate the global distribution of...
View ArticleExplaining inequality
This post was originally published in Demos Quarterly, Issue 10, “Good business and the modern economy”. There is a growing awareness that income inequality has increased in a number of developed...
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The American dream
One of the defining features of the “American Dream” is the ideal of absolute income mobility, that is the expectation that children can have a higher standard of living than their parents. Despite...
View ArticleCompensating the “losers” of globalisation
An important contribution to the debate came this week from Maurice Obstfeld. He argues that countries must protect and expand gains from trade through policies that redistribute them more equitably....
View ArticleWhy is it so hard to reach the EU’s ‘poverty’ target?
The Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth set a target of lifting more than 20 million people out of poverty, but European Union countries have struggled to make progress...
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The Universal Basic Income discussion
The OECD recently published a policy brief and a methodological note looking into the cost and benefits of adopting Basic Income (BI) as a policy option. The simplest way of introducing a BI would be...
View ArticleCould revising the posted workers directive improve social conditions?
In this parliamentary testimony Zsolt Darvas discussed the importance of posted workers in driving down wages/social conditions in high-wage EU countries and made several conclusions on the state of...
View ArticleEU posted workers: separating fact and fiction
A posted worker is someone who is temporarily (typically for a few months/days) sent to a country different to the country of his/her employer to carry out a service in a host country. For example, a...
View ArticleRevision of the Posted Workers Directive misses the point
Posted workers are EU citizens with an employment contract in their home country, who are temporarily posted to a host EU country by their employer when their employer provides a certain service. For...
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Climate policies risk increasing social inequality
This opinion piece was also published by El País, Hospodárske noviny and Ta Nea. Europe has only 30 years to stop fuelling cars with gasoline, producing electricity from coal, and heating homes with...
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Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s poverty target?
Research article in Social Indicators Research The European Union’s Lisbon strategy goal of tackling poverty was a notable failure, while the Europe 2020 strategy’s poverty target is out of reach....
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Understanding (the lack of) German public investment
The German capital stock has grown very little compared to peer European countries (see Figure 1). This development is mostly one of the private sector and underinvestment in the corporate sector....
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The role of independent expertise in legislative process
The role of independent expertise in legislative process, July 10th, 2018. On 10 July 2018, J. Scott Marcus and Zsolt Darvas testified before the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market...
View ArticleBackstage: Policy principles for a new social contract
Although income distribution in Europe and Central Asia reaches a fairly egalitarian standard relative to the rest of the world, the current levels of inequality among individuals and households are a...
View ArticleUniversal basic income and the Finnish experiment
“How can sufficient goods be available when anyone can withdraw from work – when people are no longer motivated by the need to earn their own living, or when reliance on the efforts of others makes...
View ArticleCould revising the posted workers directive improve social conditions?
In this parliamentary testimony Zsolt Darvas discussed the importance of posted workers in driving down wages/social conditions in high-wage EU countries and made several conclusions on the state of...
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