Introduction

Seppo Honkapohja and Frank Westermann

A chapter in Designing the European Model, 2009, pp 1-32 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Unemployment rates vary between 4.5 percent in countries like Ireland and Austria and close to 10 percent in Germany, France and Spain. In some of the Eastern European countries, the figures are even above 15 percent (For instance in Slovakia and Poland). Given these high unemployment rates, one of the most pressing issues in contemporary economics is how to deal with various problems in the labour markets. The economic and social consequences of labour market problems are tremendous, and since the beginning of the EEAG, the group has devoted at least one chapter to this topic every year.

Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23665-3_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230236653

DOI: 10.1057/9780230236653_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().