How competitive is Europe's labor?

by Horst Siebert

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation, the impact of the welfare state on the reservation wage and high labor costs to finance the social security system.

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Year of publication:	May 1999
Authors:	Siebert, Horst
Publisher:	Kiel : Kiel Institute of World Economics
Subject:	Arbeitslosigkeit \| Unemployment \| Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour market \| Internationaler Wettbewerb \| International competition \| Erwerbstätigkeit \| Employment \| Arbeitsproduktivität \| Labour productivity \| Arbeitskosten \| Labour costs \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Arbeitsmarktflexibilität \| Labour market flexibility \| Europa \| Europe \| Europäische Union

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 24 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Kiel working paper. - Kiel : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1862-1155, ZDB-ID 2107612-1. - Vol. no. 927
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/2273 [Handle]
Classification:	J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics. General ; Einkommen, Beschäftigung, Arbeitsmarkt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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