It all started in the summer of 2007 when a crisis hit the U.S., and because of the huge government interventions that were made, the U.S. and most European countries got into a recession. The EU crisis was also caused by big debts made mostly in Spain and Italy, before 2008. The private sectors (companies and mortgage borrowers) who were taking out loans were the main reason for this crisis. There was a decrease in the interests rates in southern European countries when they joined the euro and that resulted and caused the countries to go into a huge debt. This had negative effects on the financial markets, a slowing down of the economic growth in the industrialized countries, and impacted the European labor markets. After the Second World War the unemployment rates in Europe were already low, and with the crisis the percentage of the unemployment rates just increased in the following years. All of this was due to different problems and occurrences that they were facing such as; the two oil price shocks, the decrease in the production growth, the disinflationary policy of many Central Banks, and so on. This recession resulted in very high unemployment, and the increase in unemployment during that period was made by using some internal measures (such as flexible working time arrangements, temporary closures, etc.) but the unemployment was not equally shared between the different groups of people (the largest differences occurred due to the sex, education, age, etc.) but at the end these measures only delayed the process of significant labor unemployment, it didn’t help the situation go back to how it used to be before the crisis.
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... face many problems, the European labor market was affected by this crisis as well, and there were many other problems that were faced during this hard period. The EU’s plans for the future are to minimize the job losses and prevent unemployment, improve job creation, and to recover the economy in a full and stable way. In order for them to make this happen and in order for them to improve and develop the flexibility of the labor market and in order to raise the labor supply, they made some cuts in the income taxes, improved the access to non-standard forms of work, redirected the active labor market policies, and similar activities like these were made. But even though the EU crisis has influenced the European labor market and has created many problems and struggles with unemployment, in the past couple of years they managed to increase the unemployment rate by 2%.
The European Union has been helped economically ever since World War II. Right after World War II’s end, Europe was struggling to hold on. The countries of the modern-day European Union thought it would be a good idea to come together and help each others struggling economy. To this day, this decision has had a very positive outcome on the EU’s economy. As shown in Diagram 1, the European Union combined together has the world’s highest GDP at 18.3 Trillion USD as compared to the United States’ 17.4 Trillion USD GDP and China’s 10.4 Trillion USD GDP. The idea
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...hat “Spain is on its way to be back to its regular habits where they are going to have a healthy economy and young people that are now employed, that now have the experience on the work force”. I think that Spain can fix their unemployment rate if they focus on helping the people by creating jobs for them and fix the supply and demand, which is the Import and Export of Spain that helps their economy. Then the government can pay the people and the unemployment rate of Spain and the young people can have jobs and a better life. The only way that Spain is still fighting this crises is because they are getting help from the European Union and from other countries that are nearby to help them sustain. One of the most important things that the government system does is that they always find out the problems that they have in their country and put a stop to that fast.
The Greek economy has seen a large collapse following the recent worldwide recession. The European Union has expressed concerns for the impact that Greece’s economic collapse will negatively affect other member nations. Greece and the European Union are working to reduce the Greek deficit and to contain the economic crisis to Greece.
Labour market inflexibility in Europe is the main reason why Europe is not as dynamic an economy as the United States” Critically discuss. “Labour market inflexibility in Europe is the main reason why Europe is not as dynamic an economy as the United States” In not more than 2500 words and not less than 1500, critically discuss the above statement. Introduction Today labour markets in Europe and the USA are often compared and discussed. The general view seems to be that the US has a more dynamic economy, people tend to believe Europeans are worse off than Americans.
The most important factor controlling the size, variety and unemployment in the labor force is that of population growth and decline.
The recent global financial crisis that affected not only America but also Europe and other parts of the world resulted in massive unemployment. This is due to the high costs of operation that many corporations faced forcing them to cut on labor costs. There is need for European government interventions to avert this social crisis and prevent the occurrence of such a crisis in future. Unemployment has hit the service sector harder than other sectors with the following being the most affected: automotive, construction, tourism, finance and real estate. The global financial crisis has also increased consumer prices thus pushing inflation. According to McCathie, “the increase in July consumer prices to 1.7 per cent pushed inflation in the currency bloc up towards the European Central Bank’s target of keeping inflation at below, but close to 2 per cent. Eurozone consumer prices had stood at 1.4 per cent in June” (McCathie, 2010).
European identity, meaning unification or integration of Europe, is associated with the European Union (EU). The EU includes 28 member countries, more than half the European countries have already joined the EU for years and thus the EU unifies Europe. The Eurozone crisis is an ongoing crisis that has been affecting the countries of the Eurozone since early 2009, when a group of 10 central and eastern European banks asked for a bailout. Consequently. The crisis has made it extremely difficult for countries such as Greece to refinance their government debt without the aid of third party such as the European Central Bank (ECB) or the International Monetary Fund. Many may argue that the Eurozone crisis is over. In fact if the Eurozone crisis was really over, then Greece wouldn’t still be requesting for aid as Figure 3 shows increasing debt from 2009 onwards or Spain’s unemployment rate wouldn’t stop rising as Figure 2 shows. Consequently, economic growths have been slow and the sovereign debts have accumulated, making the Eurozone crisis is far from over until economic growth and unemployment is stabilized.
First major cause of unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is undeclared work. Undeclared work got significant meaning during the period of socialist development of this country, where privatization of local companies was frequent. This type of work existed in some branches, such as, agriculture, craft, construction and catering. In the past, undeclared work was only seasonal and temporary, but now, it is common in all sectors of country. Today, statistics shows that some companies do not register any worker, but these companies still exist. They use method where their workers are placed on the waiting list, but nobody guarantee them that they will be registered (Ilic, 2003). The major reason why employers do not register their employees is the high monthly cost for each worker, and using this method, they attempt to ma...
Eurozone crisis has had huge impacts not only on the economy of the UE but also on the other countries who have economic and financial relations with the members of the union. The reason why we have decided to examine the Eurozone crisis in detail is to have a better understanding of the mechanisms behind this extremely important and complex problem and also to make accurate inferences about the solution alternatives. In our pape...
There are a multitudinous number of both economic and social difficulties associated with unemployment. One fundamental reason why the government particularly stresses on reducing unemployment levels is as a result it poses a great cost on the economy. Not only does it affect the economy, but also it poses a great threat towards the living standards of the unemployed people itself. This could lead to many receiving less or no income based on whether or not they receive unemployment welfare benefits from the government. Reduction in income, would lead to a less disposable inc...
People need money to purchase all kinds of goods and services they needed every day and sometimes, for goods or services they desire to own. To fulfill that, they have the essential need to earn money. In order to earn money, they must work in either in fields related to their interests or to their qualifications. However, people will meet different challenges during their jobs-hunting sessions, such as many candidates competing for a job vacancy; salaries offered are lower than expected salaries and economic crisis or down which causes unemployment. Unemployment is what we will be looking into in this report. Dwidedi (2010) stated that unemployment is defined as not much job vacancies are available to fulfill the amount of people who want to work and can work according to the current pay they can get for a job they chose to work as. There are four major types of unemployment: frictional, structural, cyclical and seasonal unemployment.
The study of international relations takes a wide range of theoretical approaches. Some emerge from within the discipline itself others have been imported, in whole or in part, from disciplines such as economics or sociology. Indeed, few social scientific theories have not been applied to the study of relations amongst nations. Many theories of international relations are internally and externally contested, and few scholars believe only in one or another. In spite of this diversity, several major schools of thought are discernable, differentiated principally by the variables they emphasize on military power, material interests, or ideological beliefs. International Relations thinking have evolved in stages that are marked by specific debates between groups of scholars. The first major debate is between utopian liberalism and realism, the second debate is on method, between traditional approaches and behavioralism. The third debate is between neorealism/neoliberalism and neo-Marxism, and an emerging fourth debate is between established traditions and post-positivist alternatives (Jackson, 2007).
The other factors which are driving to these labor force numbers are the current workforce in United S...
Unemployment is a major problem that encounters a number of countries in the modern time; as it is considered a result for a lot of deteriorating conditions all over the world. Is a result of many financial breakdowns, capital money policies had to shut downs many firms and factories and to less their employees. Consequently, it leads to many social crises due to the lack of the fundamental providing which the employee gets during work. Logically, governments had to apply certain policies to avoid economic crises and the negative impacts that are left behind financial breakdowns and to protect their people.