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The paper studies the major institutional changes that are at the root of the increase in the west European unemployment rate in the last quartercentury from below 3 percent to 11 percent. The institutional characteristics of wage bargaining, the tax wedge and the legal rules hamper the...
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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,...
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Prognostizieren ist schwer, vor allem, wenn es die Zukunft betrifft - mit diesen wie mit anderen Mahnungen werden Praktiker wie Wissenschaftler davor gewarnt, sich auf das dünne Eis des Orakels von Delphi zu begeben. Auch ironisierende Menetekel aus der Literatur wie Mark Twains Bemerkung über...
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