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The Unemployment Problem

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  • Artis, Michael J

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The paper reviews the unemployment problem in Europe. It shows that while there is a good deal of heterogeneity in European unemployment experience, a 'European model' of high and persistent unemployment characterizes many of the core continental economies, in contrast to the low unemployment experience of the United States. The explanation that this difference is due to a common skill-biased shock interacting with more rigid labour-market features in the European case is reviewed, as is the suggestion that the European experience is exceptional on account of the more stringent macro-environment created by devotion to tight monetary policies. The policy outlook is one in which strongly expansionary economic policies seem unlikely to be launched and most of the burden of fighting unemployment will be borne by labour-market reforms; the bad side-effects of these could be cushioned by resort to wage subsidies, supporting a 'European' bias in favour of equality. The 35-hour week is judged to be an unlikely remedy. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Artis, Michael J, 1998. "The Unemployment Problem," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 14(3), pages 98-109, Autumn.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxford:v:14:y:1998:i:3:p:98-109
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    1. Floro Ernesto Caroleo, 2000. "Le politiche per l'occupazione in Europa: una tassonomia istituzionale," STUDI ECONOMICI, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2000(71).
    2. Moriconi, Simone & Sato, Yasuhiro, 2009. "International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(7-8), pages 939-949, August.
    3. Leila Simona TALANI, 2014. "The Political Economy of Italy in the EMU: What Went Wrong?," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, KSP Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 133-149, December.
    4. Jorg Bibow, 2001. "Making EMU Work: Some lessons from the 1990s," International Review of Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(3), pages 233-259.
    5. Sergio Destefanis & Giuseppe Mastromatteo, 2009. "Labor-market Performance in the OECD--An Assessment of Recent Evidence," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_559, Levy Economics Institute.

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