Spain’s Minimum Vital Income – a deceiving UBI

The COVID-19 crisis has not only led to a health disaster, but has also profoundly affected our economies and lifestyles. The European economy has …

Higher Education and the importance of apprenticeships: United Kingdom & Germany

In 2017, youth unemployment (young people between 15-24, without work or enrolled in education) in the EU as a whole was on average of …

Artificial intelligence and the EU labour market

Widespread automation is often named as the greatest long-term threat to human employment. But Europe’s immediate job market problems are of a different sort: …

Swedish Employment Subsidies and their effects on the Displacement of Jobs

Since the refugee crisis of 2015, the Swedish government has made strong efforts to implement a particularly ineffective policy. Through so-called “public relief jobs”, …

Displacement Jobs – On the Swedish Employment Subsidies

The Swedish labor market makes use of twelve different forms of employment subsidies involving three percent of the entire active work force.
In this …

Minimum income policies in the EU: a misguided proposal

The European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs are currently promoting a new legislative proposal …

The Mariel boatlift and the economic impact of refugees

Diego Zuluaga // 23.11.2015
Those of you familiar with the 1983 cult classic Scarface by Brian de Palma will remember that it begins with …