Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46987 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1996
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 756
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper presents a synoptic interpretation of structural unemployment in Europe. The paper consists of three parts. Part 1 summarises some major stilysed facts of the record and the state of unemployment in Europe. In part 2, these facts are taken as the basis for a theoretical interpretation of the genesis and persistence of European unemployment. Part 3 contains policy conclusions. The main message of the paper is that the ultimate cause of European unemployment since the early 1980s is to be found in the path and pattern of structural change within an institutional framework that prevents a sufficient degree of structural wage flexibility to come about.
JEL: 
J6
J60
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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