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Structural Change in European Labour Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Julian Morgan
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In recent years considerable attention has been paid to the condition of labour markets in Europe. The recession of the early 1990s saw unemployment reach a post war high in a number of European countries. As Chart 1 shows unemployment has shown a secular upward trend in Germany, Italy and most notably, Spain. Real wage growth was also slower in the 1980s and 1990s than it had been in the 1970s (Chart 2).

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 155 , February 1996 , pp. 81 - 89
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Copyright © 1996 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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I am grateful to Martin Weale, Ray Barrell, Nigel Pain and Garry Young for helpful comments.

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