European Integration - A Downward Bias in Employment Policies?

Torben Andersen

No 574, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: Even when labour mobility is low, international integration affects labour markets by making jobs more mobile. This runs via product market integration, which is an essential element of European integration. Increasing job mobility aects the possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative advantages, and thus wage competitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias arises in employment policies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming private employment tend to be used too much. These effects are stronger the more integrated product markets are.

Keywords: spill-overs; coordination; employment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F42 J23 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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