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Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

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Saint-Paul, Gilles () (GREMAQ-IDEI, Université de Toulouse I, CEPR and IZA Bonn)

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During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in countries where unemployment remained high.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1066.

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Keywords: unemployment labour market reform ideology political economy flexibility

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D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies

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