A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

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We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario vibrant. It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union (EU) and its member states. In the vibrant scenario, full employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor market shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more greening of EU member states' economies. We translate the vibrant scenario into policy proposals distinguishing between the role for the EU and that of the member states. We hope these proposals will be included in the election programs for the upcoming 2014 European Parliament elections and in developing the mandate for the new European Commission in December 2014.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 73

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Factor Income Distribution ; International Institutional Arrangements ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Education and Inequality ; Education and Economic Development ; Education: Government Policy ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Demographic Economics: Public Policy ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Labor Standards: Workers' Rights ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Technological Change: Government Policy ; Economywide Country Studies: Europe
• Thema: employment ; labor mobility ; innovation ; income inequality ; competition ; labor markets ; greening ; happiness

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ritzen, Jo ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91771