labour markets

This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

His work on labour markets includes a classic paper on the Beveridge curve, which is often cited as evidence for structural unemployment.

In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on "skilling up" young people.

Technology and globalisation are remaking labour markets across the rich world, to the relative detriment of the lower-skilled.

These labour-markets shifts are the main reason to be pessimistic about America's potential output growth.

As I noted in a previous column, interaction between the housing and labour markets is a particular concern.

Her government emphasised monetary control, deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, and privatisation.

In France and Germany this would be called full employment, even considering the structural differences of their labour markets.

"Moreover, incoming information indicates a deepening of the housing contraction as well as some softening in labour markets. "

There would be rapid adjustments of competitiveness in the goods and labour markets of the old eurozone.

The trouble is that such a dirigiste design is not well suited to today's liberal democracies and their flexible labour markets.

And the fiscal consequences of ageing cannot be sustained without reforming labour markets and pension systems.

However, tight labour markets (our third indicator) confirm that several economies have been growing unsustainably fast.

There are three basic reasons to think the wounds of the financial crisis are starting to heal: the housing, credit and labour markets.

So oil shocks have smaller effects today, because labour markets in rich countries have become considerably more flexible since the 1970s.

Another recession would be profoundly damaging to labour markets and public confidence.

Now the government has come to its senses. The prime minister has talked up the benefits of open labour markets.

Governments will have to switch from policies to support demand to policies to make their labour markets more flexible.

That means less friction in labour markets and a regulatory system that helps investment.

Messrs Gordon and Dew-Becker point to the rise of "superstar" labour markets in which the best talent commands a huge premium.

Eurozone governments have made modest reforms to the postwar welfare state and labour markets but most have muddled through.

Prices have been kept down by flexible labour markets, currency appreciation and great increases in productivity.

Brussels officials will exercise unprecedented powers of intervention over national budgets, tax policies, labour markets.

The Report notes that the key economic characteristic of globalization is deeper integration of product, capital and labour markets.

But industries that are labour-intensive do better in states that have relatively flexible labour markets.

Third, an MBA from a respected and well-known school provides an entry point for the national and international managerial labour markets.

Alone of the big Western economies, Britain immediately opened its labour markets (as did smaller Ireland and Sweden).

Lower taxes should stimulate growth. And the wisest response to high unemployment is to deregulate labour markets and eschew minimum wages.

Labour markets are relatively strong in the Northeast and improving rapidly across the Rust Belt.

The same applies to providing access to the top national and international managerial labour markets.

Meeting it will require sustained efforts across the EU, in particular on reform of labour markets.

Progress in information and communication technology (ICT) may be occurring too fast for labour markets to keep up.

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You can still see characteristic differences between the US and European labour markets.

Figures also show a startling rise in long-term unemployment, to levels previously associated with Europe's broken labour markets.

On the other, the uncertainty surrounding developments in financial and labour markets could pose a risk to domestic demand.

All the other old EU members bar Austria have either opened their labour markets fully to easterners already, or plan to do so by 2009.

In a forthcoming report the MGI heralds the "unsung" progress in European labour markets.

In both continental Europe and Japan reform should concentrate on boosting growth by freeing up labour markets and services.

America's labour markets are tighter and its firms operating more intensively.

Structural changes in Europe's labour markets suggest that jobs will go faster than in previous downturns.

We will actively use our compensation practices to become an attractive and competitive employer in the labour markets in which we recruit.

Governments must also combat joblessness without ossifying their labour markets.

One is the intention to monitor and promote competitiveness, particularly in labour markets.

But to repeat: responsible wage policies have to take into account the situation in labour markets.

Labour markets in the smaller Nordic, Baltic and Central European countries are becoming less buoyant.

But the analogy with labour markets shows the power of the theory.

Mauritius, the second-highest-ranked Sub-Saharan economy, also scores poorly on university education and labour markets.

Many European countries, and Japan, need to free their labour markets and liberalise services, to boost productivity growth.

America, long the poster child for efficient labour markets, suddenly looks sclerotic.

Labour markets will be fully opened to Romania and Bulgaria within seven years; travel restrictions will go sooner.

AMERICAN labour markets are faltering, and the script looks distressingly familiar.

But Europe too has its woes: inflexible labour markets withstand recession well but are slow to recover.

In both countries labour markets are more unequal than elsewhere.

Slack in labour markets from rising unemployment will control labour costs and wage growth.

America's labour markets have yet to generate job growth sufficient to bring down the unemployment rate.

However, even if labour markets ease a little, there will be no return to the super-abundance of workers of five years ago.

That tightens their labour markets and may stimulate migration from farther east.

As for Europe, the old continent is hobbled by inflexible product and labour markets.

They stem from rigid labour markets, implicit subsidies and corruption.

This has done more for Europe's labour markets, he avers, than have "conventional" reforms.

They also have tight labour markets. The result is an explosion of titles.

Coastal areas already battling with tight labour markets will fare worse.

Weak labour markets would get worsen, as would already swollen deficits and debt.

So companies and governments must prepare for a long period of tight labour markets.

There has been modest progress (though not enough) in freeing up labour markets and cutting red tape.

But as other EU countries open their labour markets, the flow to Britain may dwindle.

Fed officials worry that labour markets, in particular, are too tight.

So long as labour markets are flexible, job losses in manufacturing should eventually be offset by new jobs elsewhere.

So labour markets look less flexible than they were.

But countries with more liberalised labour markets, such as Ireland, have done badly too.

The most urgent measures now needed are the further deregulation of labour markets, services, energy and so on.

After the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s, Europe's rigid labour-markets kept unemployment high for decades.

During the 1970s and 1980s the labour markets for men and women became less segregated, but that trend came to a halt in the mid-1990s.

European economists put more emphasis on boosting medium-term growth, favouring reforms such as making labour markets more flexible.

Labour markets were flexibilised and the response to the crisis was well designed.

Inequalities yawn in labour markets too.

Mr Diamond won a Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on labour markets and the causes of unemployment.

If you reform your labour markets and deflate your wages to become more competitive, inflation falls, and so may house prices.

Nor did Portugal reform its labour markets.

Both it and Spain need to speed up competitiveness-enhancing structural reforms, especially freeing up their labour markets.

They also have tight labour markets.

Labour markets have not faced such problems in more than 70 years.

Most important, labour markets are losing the limited momentum they had achieved.

Wage growth is moderate everywhere, in spite of tight labour markets.

But the episode is a glaring reminder of the crisis in America's labour markets.

Just look at labour markets.

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