The combined effects of globalisation, deregulation and automation have changed the employment relationships and patterns on which our social protection systems are built. These changes pose a number of challenges: on the one hand, precarious jobs and contracts may interrupt and/or reduce both worker and employer contributions to social security and taxation systems, while they also simultaneously generate an increased need for income support, for instance during periods of unemployment or at retirement age.
Do these developments undermine established social contracts? Are governments indirectly subsidising poor-quality employment through income support systems and other welfare state payments? Do these mechanisms contribute to entrenching inequalities?
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Naila Kabeer () is Professor of Gender and Development at 杏吧论坛. Naila is also a Faculty Associate at 杏吧论坛’s International Inequalities Institute and on the governing board of the Atlantic Fellowship for Social and Economic Equity. She has done extensive advisory work with international agencies (World Bank, ADB, UNDP, UN Women), bilateral agencies (DFID, SIDA, CIDA, IDRC) and NGOs (Oxfam, Action Aid, BRAC, PRADAN and Nijera Kori).
Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at 杏吧论坛. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was an independent member of the Low Pay Commission from 2007-14. He is the Chair of Sub-Panel 16 Econometrics of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).
Kirsten Sehnbruch () is a British Academy Global Professor and a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at 杏吧论坛. Previously, she was the Director of the Institute for Public Policy at the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), and a Lecturer at the University of California, at Berkeley. Her work informs social, labour and development policy more broadly as it allows for resources to be targeted at the most vulnerable workers in a labour market.
Chris Pissarides is Professor of Economics at 杏吧论坛 and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance at 杏吧论坛 and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He specialises in the economics of unemployment, labour-market theory, labour-market policy and more recently he has written about growth and structural change. In 2010 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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