CESifo Forum 1/2004 (Spring)

Focus: The European Labour Markets - The Search for Routes to Better Economic Performance in Continental Europe (Edmund Phelps and Gylfi Zoëga) / Differences in Labour Markets Across the Atlantic (Patrick A. Puhani) / Aggregate Unemployment and Relative Wage Rigidities (Olivier Pierrard and Henri R. Sneessens) / Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths Out of Unemployment (Pedro Portugal and John T. Addison) / Wage Norms in Europe – A Curse or Blessing? (Torben M. Andersen) / Are European Labor Markets As Awful as All That? (Richard B. Freeman); Special: Savings in Germany and the United States (Hubertus Bardt and Michael Groemling); Spotlights: OECD: Despite Job Growth, Most Labour Markets Remained Slack / Youth Unemployment in the OECD / German Women Earn 30 Percent Less than Men; WES: World Economic Survey; Trends: Statistics Update