European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a … in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union in the Eurozone. Second, we argue that the fiscal union will only …

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account … analyse the role of private restructuring and public structural reforms for the urgently needed readjustment of intra-euro … intra-euro area competitiveness. This implies that private restructuring and public reforms are rather than public transfers …

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging …-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for 1991-2002. Data inspection confirms the existence of a fairly stable … explaining inter-industry wage differentials in the euro area. Both workforce characteristics (e.g., human capital variables) and …

rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an econometric multi-country model based on Kahn …

disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …

We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong …