Employment

   

The transformative power of AI

All barriers that prevent the EU from being at the forefront of the AI revolution must be removed. Christine Lagarde says Europe should expect and prepare for major changes in two areas: productivity and labour markets

  

DEI is also efficient

Trump’s campaign against DEI represents a sea change from longstanding traditions of affirmative action. Jonathan Ostry shows adding more women to the workforce delivers a bigger GDP boost than simply employing more men

  

Labour market transitions in a greener economy

The transition to a greener economy will entail reallocating workers from high-polluting to ‘green’ jobs. Emilia Soldani, Maxime Nguyen, Tomomi Tanaka and Orsetta Causa investigate the role of structural and policy factors in the transition

 

Overcoming the challenges of ageing

Populations worldwide are growing older. Rainer Kotschy, David Bloom and Andrew Scott argue for improvements in how ageing is measured and how it affects people and the economy to overcome the challenges posed by population ageing

  

European Court calls foul

A recent European Court of Justice ruling will force FIFA to rewrite its rules on the transfer of football players between clubs. Stefan Szymanski describes how the ruling could end the practice of football clubs paying transfer fees

  

May contain lies

We’ve heard the phrases ‘check the facts’, ‘examine the evidence’ and ‘correlation is not causation’ enough times that they should be in our DNA. If true, misinformation would never get out of the starting block, argues Alex Edmans