Disoccupazione, disuguaglianza e politica dell' Europa: 1984-2000

John Kenneth Galbraith () and Enrique Gracilazo ()
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John Kenneth Galbraith: University of Texas at Austin, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Austin (USA)
Enrique Gracilazo: University of Texas at Austin, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Austin (USA)

Moneta e Credito, 2004, vol. 57, issue 225, 3-29

Abstract: This paper reconsiders the problem of unemployment in Europe at multiple geographic levels and through time from 1984to 2000. We employ a panel structure that permits us to separate regional, national and continental influences on European unemployment. Important local effects include the economic growth rate, relative wealth or poverty, and the proportion of young people in the labor force. As part of this analysis, we assess the relationship between pay inequality and unemployment in Europe, following the insight of Harris and Todaro (1970) that pay inequalities influence job search. With our own panel of inequality measures derived from Eurostat's REGIO data set, we find that higher pay inequality in Europe is associated with more, not less, unemployment, and the effect is stronger for women and young workers. There are modest country fixed effects for the UK and Spain, but large effects are found only for small countries. These are all negative, a fact that may be due partly to large past emigration in some cases, and partly to strategic wage bargaining in others. Apart from this, distinctive effects at the national level are few, perhaps indicating that national labor market institutions are not the decisive factor in the determination of European unemployment. Changes in the European macro-environment are picked up by time fixed effects, and these show a striking pan-European rise in unemployment immediately following the introduction of the Maastricht Treaty, though with some encouraging recovery late in the decade.

Keywords: Pay; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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