Social trends in Europe and European employment and social policies
PROJECTS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Fischer, G., & Filauro, S. (2026, April). EU-wide inequality and its contrast during COVID-policy consideration (IEP@BU Policy Brief No. 58). Bocconi University.
Fischer, G., Strauss, R., & Spasova, S. (2026, February). A European unemployment reinsurance scheme revisited (OSE Research Paper No. 71).
Fischer, G. (2025). Social Europe: Recent developments; the new European Commission and the future of Social Europe. In V. Astrov (Ed.), WIIW Monthly Report, 2025/09.
Fischer, G. (2024, June). Les avancées de l’Europe sociale: Synthèse – Progress in Social Europe (Série Européenne). Terra Nova.
Fischer, G., & Strauss, R. (2021). An overview of issues and trends. In G. Fischer & R. Strauss (Eds.), Europe’s income, wealth, consumption, and inequality (pp. 1–39). Oxford University Press.
Fischer, G. (2021). Social policies and the ecological transformation. In F. Balate & M. J. Rodrigues (Eds.), Our European future: Charting a progressive course in the world (pp. 40–46). Publishing Partnership.
Vandenbroucke, F, L Andor, R Beetsma, B Burgoon, G Fischer, T Kuhn, C Luigjes and F Nicoli (2020), ‘The European Commission’s SURE initiative and euro area unemployment re-insurance‘, in Bénassy-Quéré, A and B Weder di Mauro (eds), Europe in the Time of Covid-19, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/europe-time-covid-19