Economic policy
TUAC represents the voice of labour in the international economic policy debate. Through its engagement at the OECD, TUAC fights for economic policies that create full employment and that give working people a fair share of the wealth they create.
This is done through our engagement on fiscal and monetary policy at the Economic Policy Committee and its Working Party on Macroeconomic and Structural Policy Analysis.
This work is led by Filip Stefanovic and Maciej Kumor. For more information, please contact stefanovic@tuac.org and kumor@tuac.org.
Going for Growth 2018: Between Structural Reforms and Inclusive Growth
In the Interim report on “Going for Growth”, released on 19 March, the OECD tries to reconcile its traditional policy of structural reforms and ‘creative destruction’ with an ‘inclusive growth” agenda, where the benefits of growth are shared much more broadly. Read TUAC Comments: ...
Download (114.54 KB)OECD Interim Forecast shows recovery is far from inclusive
Main takeaways The scar of youth unemployment has not healed. The recovery has bypassed younger people. Employment rates of 15 to 24 year old still have to recover substantially in order to reach the pre-crisis level (see graph below). ...
“Schumpeter meets Keynes again” : An OECD-IMF-BIS Conference on Financial Factors slowing down productivity
On the 10th and 11th of January, the OECD joined up with the IMF and the BIS to organise a conference discussing the role of financial policies in explaining the trend of productivity slowing down across the global economy. Several technical research papers, covering different datasets, countries ...
The Economics of Trade Unions: Recent Meta-Analysis on the Economic Impact of Trade Unions
A recent publication by Richard Freeman, Hristos Doucouligos and Patrice Laroche summarizes the available economic evidence on the effects of trade unions by using a meta-analysis. The latter allows presenting a median of all the estimated effects of trade unions across the wide range of studies. ...
