Labour Markets and Flexibility in the 1990s: The Europe-USA opposition revisited
Economists' contest on labour market flexibility has quickly pivoted around the stylised trade off between more flexibility and growth on the one hand and increased inequality of income on the other, the welfare implications of this trade off being too often assumed rather than verified. This article uses the essays collected in the Special Issue on Labour Markets and Flexibility in the 1990s of the International Review of Applied Economics to challenge the terms of this trade off as well as the related welfare assumptions. Some of the most popular tenets in the literature are assessed in the light of the evidence and the arguments put forward by the authors contributing to the Special Issue, in particular, the notion that the European labour market is rigid, the contention that more flexibility is imposed by international competition, or that labour market regulation weakens both employment and output growth, the belief that the main welfare cost of flexibility is increased inequality of earnings or the fear that flexibility may be primarily 'female'.
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1999
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Authors: | Bettio, Francesca ; Rosenberg, Samuel |
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International Review of Applied Economics. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0269-2171. - Vol. 13.1999, 3, p. 269-279
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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