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How competitive is Europe's labor?
Siebert, Horst - 1999
Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265442
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How competitive is Europe's labor?
Siebert, Horst - 1999
Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495318
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Consequences of rising income inequality: a comment
Siebert, Horst - 1998
Rising income inequality is an anglo Saxon problem. For most of the other OECD countries, earnings dispersion is rather persistent. Vertical mobility is to be taken into account. The paper also looks at the relationship of income inequality, growth and employment. It elaborates the point that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265354
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Arbeitsproduktivität und Löhne in der Europäischen Währungsunion
Siebert, Horst - In: Die Weltwirtschaft : Vierteljahresschrift des Instituts … (1998) 2, pp. 115-120
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001251749
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Hundert Punkte für mehr Beschäftigung
Siebert, Horst - 1996
Mehr Beschäftigung und weniger Arbeitslosigkeit kann es in einer Marktwirtschaft nur geben, wenn die Arbeitsproduktivität, die Wertschöpfung pro Beschäftigten, stärker steigt als die Löhne. Ist dagegen die Lohnzunahme größer als der Produktivitätsfortschritt, so bauen die Unternehmen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294970
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How can Europe solve its unemployment problem?
Siebert, Horst - 1999
Spain. The basic rule for a stable employment situation in an economy is: nominal wages should stay in line with labor … be integrated into the labor market, the productivity rule has to be modified: the increase in real wages should stay … formation, i.e., to negotiate wages at the level of firms. It would be an incentive not to undertake the necessary steps to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294975
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75 Punkte gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit
Siebert, Horst - 2002
Mehr Beschäftigung und weniger Arbeitslosigkeit kann es in einer Marktwirtschaft nur geben, wenn die Arbeitsproduktivität, die Wertschöpfung pro Beschäftigten, real stärker steigt als die Löhne. Ist dagegen die Lohnzunahme größer als der Produktivitätsfortschritt, so bauen die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295030
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Labor productivities and labor costs in Euroland
Siebert, Horst - 1998
The paper presents labor productivities in the member countries of Euroland. The result is that there is quite a divergence in labor productivities (per head) in the European Monetary Union. The Netherlands and Italy reach 85 percent of the West German level, Spain 62 and Portugal 35. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265352
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The failure of the German labor market
Siebert, Horst - 2003
The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the institutional set-up of the labor market. It looks at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273145
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Arbeitsproduktivität und Löhne in der Europäischen Währungsunion
Siebert, Horst - In: Die Weltwirtschaft (1998) 2, pp. 115-120
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313950