{"id":20914,"date":"2012-09-07T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=20914"},"modified":"2012-09-07T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:26:28","slug":"european-commission-jobs-for-europe-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=20914","title":{"rendered":"European Commission – Jobs for Europe Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI have been in Brussels this week as an invited speaker at the – Jobs for Europe: The Employment Policy Conference<\/a> – being staged by the European Commission (September 6-7, 2012). One of the five main topics is “Pathways to full employment: job guarantee, social economy, welfare to work”. I gave a presentation yesterday on the Job Guarantee. The video of the presentation is available below.
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\nThe Conference site says:<\/p>\n

\nThe conference will build on the Employment Package put forward by the Commission on 18 April and on the outcomes of the 2012 European Semester, but also on a series of conferences which the Commission organised during 2011 in order to explore new dimensions of employment policy, notably regarding the functioning of European labour markets, wage developments, flexicurity in a crisis context, and inequalities.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My sesssion will on the Job Guarantee and the EC has prepared this document – Issues paper: Job guarantee – Concept and implementation<\/a> – to inform the session I am presenting.<\/p>\n

It is an excellent sign that the EC is now considering core Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) ideas to be of sufficient merit to include as one of the main topics of this major European conference.<\/p>\n

I will post the Q&A part of my presentation next week once I have processed the video.<\/p>\n

The following presentation is about 24 minutes long.<\/p>\n