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Any common eurozone unemployment scheme would thus risk financing the long-term unemployment created by rigid national labor-market institutions, which for decades have proved impervious to reforms.
After decades during which France experienced slow growth, high unemployment, industrial decline, and rigid corporatist institutions blocking all attempts at reform, a new hope for change has emerged.
Control in China was not nearly rigid enough to make it the embodiment of an all-embracing, authoritarian Big Brother state, but there were parallels, from the disparagement of many forms of “bourgeois” enjoyment and entertainment to periodic propaganda campaigns insisting that two plus two equaled five.
As Mark Kleiman of NYU’s Marron Institute points out, the Republican Party’s rigid and die-hard ideological opposition to “taxing the rich [has] destroyed, on a practical level, the theoretical basis for believing that free trade benefits everyone.”
What should not be pursued is a rigid, vertical and artificial division of labor, whereby the US plays the lone global leader (with Europe simply following) while the EU concentrates exclusively on enlarging its “house” (with the US disengaging from Continental security).
If the current EU budget rules are too rigid and are ignored in the face of a shock, then the door is open for imprudent fiscal behavior.
In both cases, the way children actually think and develop musical sense – rather than rigid rules and structures – guides the learning process.
More importantly, even the regulators themselves have ceased to believe in obsolete and rigid doctrines.
If the first is too rigid, diseases and their social context evolve beyond its means.
For almost 40 years, that era’s Western feminist critique of rigid sex-role stereotyping has prevailed.
The likely result of this trend will be a shift from the old model of business organization – in which most workers carry out specialized functions for a single employer within a rigid hierarchy – to one centered on lean core organizations that rely on a loose network of external providers for many tasks.
Mergers are no silver bullet, but they could help to alleviate serious problems relatively quickly – though, in the longer term, the banks would still have to tackle the legacy of heavy and rigid structures and rebuild their reputations, with a strong focus on consumer service and fairness.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the EU’s inability to meet the challenges of integration is due to rigid economic structures and inadequate human capital – weaknesses that can only be tackled effectively by national policies, where the Union has little role to play.
The experience of successful reform in the Anglo-Saxon and Nordic countries shows that Europe need not be condemned to stagnation, provided that it renounces rigid employment protection.
Moreover, well-functioning labor markets attract migrants with higher qualifications, while countries with rigid employment protection are targeted by the low-skilled and those willing to work illegally.
This ossification was driven by the rigid, conservative and gerontocratic nature of governance.
The project was perceived – rightly so – as amounting to a surrender of sovereignty, because it introduced a rigid principle of non-discrimination between foreign and local companies that would eliminate the host country’s room for maneuver without offering anything in return.
Rigid rules and distant policymakers merely suffocate the animal spirits of the business class.
Given constraints on inter-sectoral labor mobility, stemming from barriers to skills acquisition and rigid labor-market regulations, the poorest workers have few options when such changes occur.
They were all suspicious and rigid, qualities that helped to deepen their isolation.
But Japan’s economy has for too long been stuck in a ditch as a result of its being bound by over-regulation and a rigid adherence to precedent.
Our visual systems evolved in an environment that contained (mostly) rigid moving objects.
Our visual system automatically transforms such changing stimulus inputs into objects that appear to be rigid - i.e., unchanging in perceived size - but moving radially in three-dimensional space.
The perceived size of the moon would be determined by the kinetic SDIH, which produces the perception of rigid objects moving radially when stimulus size changes continuously.
The Bush administration shuns overly rigid arms agreements, which could constrain US flexibility in responding rapidly to emerging threats.
The familiar figure with the glinting, rimless glasses and the rigid hair forced back, as if it were spun glass, greeted me at the door of his seemingly tennis court-size office.
The efforts of Kan’s government are obviously hampered by a rigid and much fragmented bureaucratic infrastructure.
Western European wages are far too rigid for the benefits of competition and sectoral change to be shared by a majority of workers.
In Latin America, however, rigid class divisions and deep income inequalities created fertile ground for populism.
The economics profession (and institutions within the existing financial architecture, including regulators) had become excessively specialized, rigid, and self-interested.
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