Divergent European Labour Markets

David Metcalf

Chapter 7 in Prospects for the European Monetary System, 1990, pp 135-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are both similarities and differences in the pattern of employment among EC countries. Some evidence for the five largest countries is given in Table 7.1. Male labour force participation rates (the percentage of a given age/sex population in the workforce) are similar, but female participation rates are substantially higher in France, Germany and the UK than they are in Italy and Spain. Consequently women account for a much larger fraction of the total labour force in the former set of countries than in the latter two. There is also great variation in the proportion of jobs that are part-time: Italy has only a quarter the number of part-time jobs that the UK has. Table 7.1 Labour market information for selected EC countries

Keywords: Labour Market; Gross Domestic Product; Collective Bargaining; Industrial Relation; Union Membership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11629-4_7

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