Full Employment as a Possible Objective for EU Policy II. Review of Some Empirical Aspects

Massimo Cingolani ()

Panoeconomicus, 2008, vol. 55, issue 2, 167-184

Abstract: A contribution appeared in the previous issue of Panoeconomicus reviewed the theoretical arguments brought by Alain Parguez and Jean Gabriel Bliek in support of their idea of assigning a full employment objective to European economic policies and their coordination (Bliek and Parguez (2007) and Parguez (2007b)). Without pretending at exhaustiveness, this contribution reviews and partly extends the empirical evidence they presented in support of their argument with reference to selected macroeconomic developments in several countries and different historical periods, in particular for the US, Canada, Japan and the EU. It confirms the descriptive power of the circuit and its relevance for the discussion of alternative economic policies, in particular in the field of employment. Together with the previous article, it shows that the circuit can be used to update economic policy thinking, nourishing also the necessary democratic debate amongst police alternatives. Key words: Unemployment, Capacity utilisation, Circuit, Long-term interest rates, Disequilibrium.JEL: D5, E12, H5, H6, E4.

Keywords: Unemployment; Capacity utilisation; Circuit; Long-term interest rates; Disequilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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