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"In this paper, we investigate the adaptation of the EU climate stances between the early 2000s until today. Historically tracing the EU's approach to the green transition, we highlight an increasing role of interventionist frames within European discourses and policies. As the realms of intervention have increased, so has the EU's emphasis on the need to provide social protection for the sections of the population that have more to lose from a large-scale transition. We understand this process as signalling the increasing relevance of what we call the Compensatory State. This concept points to a form of governance that, by setting itself ambitious goals that (if implemented) would have widespread effects on large portions of the population, needs to produce equally extended forms of compensations. The paper historically traces the development of this form of governance from the previously prevalent frameworks (which we understand through the concepts of the Regulatory State and the Competitiveness-enhancing State). The paper integrates contemporary attempts to theorise the role of public authorities within the EU's green transition. In addition, our analysis challenges the expectations of the extant literature in political economy, which looks at increasing social protection mainly as a public solution to market distortions."

"Freedom of movement in the EU is much more developed in terms of economic freedoms than in terms of social and welfare policies. Social insurance arrangements for mobile workers are handled within a reciprocity-based regulatory framework. This article analyses the intra-EU social insurance system from the point of view of highly mobile construction workers. Under the relevant legislation, these workers should receive social insurance either from their home country, if posted by their employer, or from the host country, if moving individually. The article shows, however, that employers often undermine the system to save on labour costs. For those in a weak labour market position, social insurance is unavailable, while those from wealthier welfare states rely on home-country social insurance, and those who are able to, negotiate and navigate complex systems themselves. Consequently, those most in need of social insurance are least able to access it."

"The recent literature on platform work and the welfare state has stressed that, despite being affected by high-income insecurity, platform workers cannot easily access social protection. However, it is unclear why platform workers encounter such barriers. This article offers an inductive and empirically based theoretical framework to investigate the obstacles faced by platform workers. It shows that the barriers experienced by platform workers depend on the eligibility criteria, the assessment criteria and the trade-off between taxation and social protection. The article substantiates these claims by offering both a policy analysis of formal arrangements and a qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of welfare of 101 platform workers in Italy, Sweden and the UK during COVID-19. The research found that, while many platform workers attempted to access social protection during COVID-19, platform workers' access to social protection was affected by their positionality as outsiders, which clashes with the eligibility criteria (in Sweden and Italy); by the irregular nature of platform work, which contrasts with the rigidity of the assessment criteria (in the UK, Italy and Sweden); and by the implicit trade-off experienced by platform workers between minimising taxation and accessing to social protection (in the UK and Italy)."

"Après les élections du 4 juillet 2024, le gouvernement travailliste est confronté à des arbitrages difficiles. Son programme électoral contient des engagements dont la réalisation sera coûteuse alors qu'il hérite d'une trajectoire économique médiocre et d'une situation budgétaire dégradée. Dans ce contexte, il donne la priorité à l'amélioration des droits du travail, individuels et collectifs, tout en imposant des sacrifices impopulaires dans le domaine de la protection sociale. Parallèlement, des avancées sont réalisées dans le domaine des salaires. Les syndicats accordent un soutien vigilant aux nouveaux dirigeants."

"This annual flagship publication provides details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers: personal income taxes and employee contributions paid by employees, social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers, and cash benefits received by in-work families. It illustrates how these taxes and benefits are calculated in each member country and examines how they have an impact on household incomes. The results also enable quantitative cross-country comparisons of labour cost levels and the overall tax and benefit position of single persons and families on different levels of earnings.

The publication shows the amounts of taxes and social security contributions levied and cash benefits received for eight different family types, which vary by a combination of household composition and household type. It also presents: the resulting average and marginal tax rates (that is, the tax burden); the average tax rates (showing the part of gross wage earnings or total labour costs taken in tax and social security contributions, both before and after cash benefits); and the marginal tax rates (showing the part of a small increase of gross earnings or total labour costs that is paid in these levies)."

"Les dimensions économiques et sociales du travail sont au coeur du choix de société. Durée du travail, heures supplémentaires, stress au travail, délocalisations, licenciements, pouvoir d'achat, âge de la retraite ne cessent d'alimenter débats et controverses. Mais qu'en est-il vraiment de ces questions ?
Cet ouvrage propose des points de vue et des synthèses sur l'état du monde du travail dans la France d'aujourd'hui. Tour à tour les questions de l'emploi et du chômage, des salaires et des revenus, de la protection sociale et des conditions de travail, des restructurations d'entreprise et, enfin, des relations sociales et de la conflictualité, sont analysées par une équipe de chercheurs spécialisés.
L'objet du livre est d'éclairer les faits sociaux et économiques de la période contemporaine par les acquis de la recherche présentés de manière pédagogique et accessibles à tous ceux qui s'y intéressent. Le lecteur y trouvera les données disponibles les plus actualisées, des mises en perspective sur plusieurs décennies, des indicateurs inédits, des analyses et grilles de lecture, de même que des éléments de comparaison européenne. "