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France has also undertaken ambitious reforms to reduce job-market dualism and give greater flexibility to employers as well as greater security to employees.
This would not discourage new hires under open-ended contracts, as employers would continue to benefit from substantial flexibility at the start of a worker’s employment, when the quality of new hires is being assessed.
Key countries must find the political will to confront defensive interests and negotiate with flexibility to reach a market-opening deal.
Whereas the peg to the dollar was resumed during the global financial crisis, in June China announced a return to flexibility.
In economies with excess capacity (including human capital) and a high degree of structural flexibility, the multipliers are greater than once thought.
In the US, for instance, structural flexibility contributed to economic recovery and helped the country adapt to long-term technological changes and global market forces.
Europe’s fiscal interventions would be easier to justify if they were accompanied by microeconomic reforms targeted at increasing flexibility.
Unfortunately, Japan’s public officials appear incapable of similar flexibility.
Under the banner of “simplification,” the “how” is gravitating towards outsourcing most of the implementation to agencies that are to be endowed, one hopes, with greater flexibility to fulfill their specific missions.
Think of the limited success of the ECB’s advocacy of greater labor-market flexibility: there has been no dramatic increase in the pace of reforms.
For migration to continue at this pace, China will have to relax the long-entrenched strictures of its hukou, or household registration system, which limits labor-market flexibility by tethering workers and their benefits to their birthplace.
I hope – and suspect – that some flexibility will be possible in this area.
Unless and until German workers accept the need for greater flexibility in the face of global competition, export profits will continue to be invested abroad, reducing overall production costs – and reinforcing the bazaar economy at home.
At the same time, the government should work with the country’s trade unions to boost the flexibility and efficiency of the labor market.
Meanwhile, eurozone countries are constrained not only by this fiscal fetish, but also by their lack of exchange-rate flexibility.
Another crucial component of the Scandinavian model is labor-market flexibility.
On the OECD “Employment Protection Legislation” index, the US scores a 1.2 on a 0-5 scale, where zero indicates full flexibility.
The structurally conservative network of intertwined institutions lacks the flexibility and creativity needed to give an innovative answer to globalization.
Xi may address Chinese diplomacy’s thorniest issues – particularly Sino-US relations – with more realism and flexibility than in recent years.
This binary approach, provided EU leaders showed genuine flexibility in their reform negotiations, could transform public attitudes in Britain and across Europe.
All economies must be adaptable to structural change in order to support growth, and flexibility becomes more important in altering defective growth patterns, because it affects the speed of recovery.
Similar flexibility exists with the Euro, the Schengen Agreement, and the Social Chapter.
Difficult reforms are needed to put many national economies’ fiscal affairs in order and to increase their structural flexibility.
The third missing ingredient is structural flexibility, which is needed for two reasons.
Even without crisis-related imbalances, structural flexibility in all economies is necessary to adapt to the shifts caused by globalization and the labor-saving and skill-biased technological shifts associated with the rising value of digital capital.
If investment in human capital is to keep up with the changing composition of employment, structural flexibility is needed.
America has the flexibility, capacity, and leadership to adapt to the new rules for pursuing diplomacy, but Europe simply does not.
Not only would such a board smack of colonialism and be politically untenable; the scheme would also lack the flexibility needed to avoid a depression in Puerto Rico, while reassuring everyone, including investors, that fiscal policy will remain prudent in the future.
The idea is to keep expenditure below what the government can raise in taxes in the long run (thereby ensuring sustainability), while allowing deficits whenever the economy is operating below potential and tax revenue is abnormally low (thereby guaranteeing flexibility and contributing to macroeconomic stabilization).
At the Stockholm summit the leaders pretended that the solution to Europe’s ageing problem will be found in better job mobility, more flexibility, and further economic reform.
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