Levy Economics Institute Presents

Towards a European Job Guarantee 

Join the Levy Institute Research Program of Gender Equality and the Economy for a lecture and discussion with Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos, moderated by Pavlina R. Tcherneva. Dr. Antonopoulos's presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members.

In this presentation, Dr. Antonopoulos will first explore, through facts and statistical evidence, the state of play with regard to long-term unemployment in the EU context. Subsequently, she will discuss what a job guarantee policy is, the EU's experience with job guarantee initiatives and other direct job creation programs that are currently being implemented, the principles that ought to be observed should a job guarantee be adopted at the EU level, and how an EU job guarantee might be financed. In the final section of her talk, Antonopoulos will highlight several dimensions of job guarantees which are particularly important from a gender perspective. 

On Wednesday, February 19, from 5pm to 6pm in the Blithewood Conference Room, or on Zoom.

Register to attend the event via Zoom here. 

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Beginning in 2015, Senior Scholar Rania Antonopoulos served as alternate minister of labor in Greece, member of parliament, and, more recently, ambassador for Greece at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Her professional experience includes appointments at the UN-Women’s headquarters as a macroeconomic policy advisor; expert advisor to various United Nations organizations; senior scholar and director of the Institute’s Gender Equality and the Economy program; and professor of economics at New York University among other academic appointments. Her policy-oriented research and advocacy has focused on the macroeconomic results of job guarantee policies and their implications for economic recovery, gender equality, and poverty reduction, and on the construction of a new poverty indicator that highlights the importance of time-use in estimates of poverty and inequality.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://www.levyinstitute.org/news/towards-a-european-job-guarantee.

Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Blithewood

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