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175 publications found, searching for 'Employment Policy and Labor Markets '

• Policy Note No. 2025/9
  November 24, 2025

  Democratic Renewal and the Green Job Guarantee

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  The following remarks were delivered as the keynote at the joint Global Forum for Social and Solidarity Economy (GSEF) and International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social…more

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• Working Paper No. 1100
  November 05, 2025

  The Death of the Social Contract and the Enshittification of Jobs

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  This paper employs the concept of “enshittification”—the systematic degradation of a service or product in the pursuit of profit—as a powerful metaphor to analyze the decay of the US labor…more

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• Policy Note No. 2025/8
  October 08, 2025

  How Secure Is Wage Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa?

  Ajit Zacharias, Aashima Sinha, Abena D. Oduro, Nthabiseng Moleko, Thomas Masterson, and Fernando Rios-Avila
  Abstract

  Employment security refers to the ability of both formal and informal institutions to provide employed individuals protection against economic risks and support their economic progress. It is related, but not…more

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• Working Paper No. 1095
  October 06, 2025

  A Short History of MGNREGA: Twenty Years in Ten Charts

  Jean Drèze and Rahul R.
  Abstract

  India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, is an experiment of major significance. Drawing on official statistics, this paper presents a broad-brush retrospective on MGNREGA’s…more

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• Working Paper No. 1090
  August 14, 2025

  Education and Economic Isolation

  Yousuf Daas, Sameh Hallaq, Danilo Leite Dalmon, and Jennifer Olmsted
  Abstract

  This study examines the impact of the Gaza blockade on private returns to education, with a focus on regional and gender disparities in the Palestinian territories. Using data from the…more

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• Working Paper No. 1088
  August 01, 2025

  The Job Guarantee: Lessons from Argentina’s Jefes Plan and Its Reform

  Agustín Mario
  Abstract

  According to current macroeconomic models, there is a need to maintain a natural rate of unemployment to contain inflation. Put simply, unemployment is considered an (inevitable) cost of price stability….more

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• Policy Note No. 2025/5
  July 30, 2025

  Working Harder, Paying Less: Wage Suppression in Greece

  Vlassis Missos and Nikolaos Rodousakis
  Abstract

  The state of the labor market in Greece exemplifies the socioeconomic damage caused by austerity.[i] More than 15 years into a recession that has proven both deep and enduring, signs…more

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• Policy Note No. 2025/2
  April 21, 2025

  Remembering Pope Francis’s Call for a Universal Basic Wage

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  On April 21, 2025, a day after Easter Sunday, the world mourned the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis. Five years earlier, on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020—amid the devastating…more

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• Working Paper No. 1066
  December 06, 2024

  Job Guarantee Program and the Kaleckian Dilemma

  Caio Vilella and Eduardo F. Bastian
  Abstract

  Originally issued as EDI Working Paper No. 10, November 2023 Minsky (1965) has presented the Job Guarantee program as a recommendation in the war against unemployment and poverty. Kalecki (1943),…more

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• Working Paper No. 1060
  November 26, 2024

  The Job Guarantee

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  Originally issued as EDI Working Paper No. 02, 2022 Orthodox economic theory presents the policy maker with an impossible choice: eradicate unemployment at the cost of undesirable inflation or keep…more

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• Policy Note No. 2024/4
  March 14, 2024

  European Job Guarantee

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  Despite the gradual economic recovery and positive policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem of long-term unemployment continues to plague millions in Europe. To effectively address this and other…more

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• One-Pager No. 71
  December 14, 2023

  Has the Time Arrived for a Job Guarantee in Europe?

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  In comparison to the policy responses in the aftermath of the 2008–9 global financial crisis, the reactions of EU policymakers to the combined shocks of the COVID-19 crisis and Ukraine-Russia…more

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• Working Paper No. 1022
  July 12, 2023

  Has the Time for a European Job Guarantee Policy Arrived?

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  As country after country in the European Union is called to respond to the current challenge of our time—high inflation and declining real wages—governments must engage in a transformative agenda…more

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• Working Paper No. 997
  December 22, 2021

  Identity and Well-Being in the Skilled Crafts and Trades

  Martin Binder and Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg
  Abstract

  We analyze the extent to which occupational identity is conducive to worker well-being. Using a unique survey dataset of individuals working in the German skilled crafts and trades (2017–18, n=757),…more

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• Working Paper No. 981
  January 19, 2021

  What Jobs Should a Public Job Guarantee Provide?

  Daniel Haim
  Abstract

  The job guarantee is a viable policy option for tackling both unemployment and underemployment. Hyman P. Minsky was one of the seminal writers on this subject. The first part of…more

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• Working Paper No. 976
  November 11, 2020

  The Palestinian Labor Market over the Last Three Decades

  Sameh Hallaq
  Abstract

  This paper consists of three economic literature review essays that survey the Palestinian labor market during the last three decades. The first essay examines the economic return to schooling since…more

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• Working Paper No. 963
  July 16, 2020

  The Early Impact of COVID-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States

  Thomas Masterson, Michelle Holder, and Janelle Jones
  Abstract

  The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women…more

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• Book Series
  July 07, 2020

  The Case for a Job Guarantee

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and…more

• Policy Note No. 4
  May 05, 2020

  Guaranteeing Employment during the Pandemic and Beyond

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  The ongoing job losses, already numbering in the tens of millions, and the mass unemployment that will remain once the COVID-19 crisis has passed are of our own making, argues…more

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• Working Paper No. 949
  February 12, 2020

  A Labor Market–Augmented Empirical Stock-Flow Consistent Model Applied to the Greek Economy

  Christos Pierros
  Abstract

  This paper extends the empirical stock-flow consistent (SFC) literature through the introduction of distributional features and labor market institutions in a Godley-type empirical SFC model. In particular, labor market institutions,…more

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• Working Paper No. 946
  February 03, 2020

  The Relationship between Technical Progress and Employment

  Jesus Felipe, Gemma Estrada, Donna Faye Bajaro, and John McCombie
  Abstract

  We show that Autor and Salomons’ (2017, 2018) analysis of the impact of technical progress on employment growth is problematic. When they use labor productivity growth as a proxy for…more

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• Working Paper No. 941
  December 12, 2019

  Wage Differential between Palestinian Non-refugees and Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank and Gaza

  Sameh Hallaq
  Abstract

  This paper measures the wage differential between Palestinian non-refugees and Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza over the years 1999–2012. First, the main individual and occupational differences between…more

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• Working Paper No. 939
  October 18, 2019

  The Macroeconomic Loss Due to Violence against Women and Girls

  Kijong Kim, Srinivas Raghavendra, Sinead Ashe, Mrinal Chadha, Felix Asante, Petri T. Piiroinen, and Nata Duvvury
  Abstract

  Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a widely recognized human rights violation with serious consequences for the health and well-being of women and their families. However, the wider ramifications of…more

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• Working Paper No. 923
  February 06, 2019

  Economic Planning under Capitalism

  Abstract

  By the beginning of the 20th century, the possibility and efficacy of economic planning was believed to have been proven by totalitarian experiments in Germany, the Soviet Union, and, to…more

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