A pandemic ‘misery index’: Ranking countries’ economic and health performance during Covid-19
How can we compare the impact of Covid-19 on different countries across the world? Tim Vlandas proposes a pandemic ‘misery index'.
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Bob Hancké
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
Germany’s silent rebalancing, Covid, and EMU
Bob Hancké points out the consequences of Germany's silent wage rebalancing for EMU from a practical and theoretical perspective.
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Bob Hancké
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
Redistribution within one class
Read what's wrong with Deutsche Bank’s economics department's suggestion to tax WFH so that essential workers could be paid a proper wage.
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Laurenz Mathei
- Nov 11, 2020
- 5 min
The Labour Market after Covid-19: At a glance
Covid-19 has a profound impact on the labour market. This post sets the scene and offers an overview of the other articles in this dossier.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 28, 2020
- 11 min
The Political Economy of Skills
How do we find out which new skills are required and how do we produce them? Institutions are the answer to both, Bob Hancké argues.
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 8, 2020
- 4 min
Big shifts: Lessons from the 1980s for the labour market after Covid-19
Read how understanding different adjustment paths can help avoid a second generation of losers from economic restructuring after Covid-19
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Bob Hancké
- Oct 6, 2020
- 3 min
WFH requires a paradigm shift in how we think of work, job autonomy and cooperation
Unless we redesign work tasks into projects with increased team autonomy, organisations are unlikely to reap the benefits of remote working.
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Nicholas Barr
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Britain’s job support schemes: right direction, more to do
Some jobs will still be viable in a few months’ time. Others won’t. Nicholas Barr (LSE) argues that job support schemes need to go further.
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Bob Hancké, Toon van Overbeke, and Dustin Voss
- Sep 28, 2020
- 3 min
Anatomy of a wage subsidy
The UK's new wage subsidy scheme is unlikely to work as well as its German counterpart, as many important systemic elements are missing.
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Daniel Beunza and Derin Kent
- Aug 28, 2020
- 4 min
Returning to the office: how to stay connected and socially distant
Working from home or returning to the office? We need to think carefully about future working arrangements to not get stuck in the middle.
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