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- Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Part II Macroeconomic Implications of Reforms
- 4 Heterogeneous Market Regulation and Divergence in a Currency Union
- 5 Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area
- 6 Financial Crises and Liberalization
- 7 Structural Reforms and Fiscal Sustainability
- 8 Transitions in the EU Labour Market before and after the Crisis
- 9 On the Complementarity between Labour Market Regulation and Tax Reforms in the European Union
- Part III Case Studies
- Conclusions
- Index
- References
8 - Transitions in the EU Labour Market before and after the Crisis
The Role of Reforms
from Part II - Macroeconomic Implications of Reforms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2020
- Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe
- Part II Macroeconomic Implications of Reforms
- 4 Heterogeneous Market Regulation and Divergence in a Currency Union
- 5 Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area
- 6 Financial Crises and Liberalization
- 7 Structural Reforms and Fiscal Sustainability
- 8 Transitions in the EU Labour Market before and after the Crisis
- 9 On the Complementarity between Labour Market Regulation and Tax Reforms in the European Union
- Part III Case Studies
- Conclusions
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter provides an in-depth examination of labour market transitions in the EU over the period 2004–2016, drawing on EU–Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) data. Building on the earlier work of Ward-Warmedinger and Macchiarelli (2014), our analysis offers a detailed insight on how well European economies have recovered from the crisis and whether, and to what extent, their labour markets have returned to their precrisis path. In particular, we analyse labour market transitions across the three key labour market statuses of employment, unemployment and inactivity, providing aggregate break-downs by country, age groups, gender and individual’s level of education based on the EU-LFS. We subsequently use country-specific measures of transition rates and a synthetic index of mobility in order to draw comparisons across countries and over time, as well as examine how country-specific patterns relate to key institutional characteristics, both microeconomic (e.g., employment protection legislation) and macropolitical (e.g., welfare regimes). This offers a granular overview of labour market trends by country and for the EU as a whole, allowing us to draw conclusions about the functioning of labour markets in Europe with regard to their flexibility (speed/extent of transitions and extent of mobility) and how this evolved over time since the crisis.
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- Economic Growth and Structural Reforms in Europe , pp. 239 - 279Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020