{"id":6033,"date":"2013-10-18T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T06:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2013-10-24T00:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T21:53:37","slug":"unemployment-labour-market-flexibility-and-imf-advice-moving-beyond-mantras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/unemployment-labour-market-flexibility-and-imf-advice-moving-beyond-mantras\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment, labour-market flexibility and IMF advice: Moving beyond mantras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanchard, Olivier, Jaumotte, Florence &amp; Loungani,\u00a0Prakash.<\/p>\n<p>The state of labour markets in advanced economies remains dismal despite recent signs of growth. This column explains the IMF\u2019s logic behind the advice it provided on labour markets during the Great Recession. It argues that flexibility is crucial both at the micro level, i.e. on worker reallocation, and at the macro level, e.g. on collective agreements. It suggests that the IMF approach is close to the consensus among labour-market researchers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<\/strong> Voxeu<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/unemployment-labour-market-flexibility-and-imf-advice\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanchard, Olivier, Jaumotte, Florence &amp; Loungani,\u00a0Prakash. The state of labour markets in advanced economies remains dismal despite recent signs of growth. This column explains the IMF\u2019s logic behind the advice it provided on labour markets during the Great Recession. It argues that flexibility is crucial both at the micro level, i.e. on worker reallocation, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,4],"tags":[28,25,27],"class_list":["post-6033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-36","category-18","category-proposals","tag-28","tag-25","tag-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6071,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6033\/revisions\/6071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}