Why are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?

By G. Saint‐Paul. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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During the nineties, unemployment fell in a number of European countries while it remained high in others. This Paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent economic research, emphasizing obstacles to reform due to political constraints, the prevalence of ideology, and agency issues within those bureaucracies concerned with the unemployment problem. Some speculative thoughts are offered as to why those factors might be more stringent in countries where unemployment remained high.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

• Institutional Determinants of Unemployment in OECD Countries: Does the Deregulatory View Hold Water? (2007, background): “…Nunziata, and Ochel 2005, 4+ 10+ The major reform of the unemployment insurance system in the Netherlands involved the tightening of eligibility criteria; Saint-Paul 2004, 52+ 11+ Baccaro and Simoni 2007+ 12+ Visser and Hemerijck 1997+ 13+ Baccaro 2000+ Between the second half of the 1980s…”
• Labor Unions, Political Representation, and Economic Inequality (2017, background): “Extending these agreements across the economy may yield a more compressed wage distribution and limit growth in top income shares but at the cost of higher unemployment (Saint-Paul 2004, Aidt & Tzannatos 2008).”