unemployment Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/unemployment/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:43:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png unemployment Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/unemployment/ 32 32 Matteo Renzi And The Reform Challenge In Italy https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/matteo-renzi-and-the-reform-challenge-in-italy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=matteo-renzi-and-the-reform-challenge-in-italy https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/matteo-renzi-and-the-reform-challenge-in-italy/#respond Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:08:00 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/matteo-renzi-and-the-reform-challenge-in-italy/ Of all the shortcomings of the Italian economy, youth unemployment (40%) is the most worrying. The new Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, took up this issue through labor law reform since it was outdated and harmful. Will he succeed where Mario Monti failed? Yet what happened at Fiat’s may be hopeful.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/matteo-renzi-and-the-reform-challenge-in-italy/feed/ 0 Corporate Tax: Northern Good Practices https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/corporate-tax-northern-good-practices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-tax-northern-good-practices https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/corporate-tax-northern-good-practices/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:35:28 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/corporate-tax-northern-good-practices/ It is not forbidden to former socialist countries to reduce the weight of the state and drastically reduce taxes, especially on businesses. This was done in Sweden and Denmark, where unemployment is lower than in France .

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/corporate-tax-northern-good-practices/feed/ 0 Government Caring For Youth: The Path To Failure https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-caring-for-youth-the-path-to-failure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=government-caring-for-youth-the-path-to-failure https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-caring-for-youth-the-path-to-failure/#respond Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:37:00 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/government-caring-for-youth-the-path-to-failure/ France hosted in the November 15th week a summit dedicated to the "Fight Against Youth Unemployment." This is an excellent initiative for a country where the 16-25 years-old population reached a 26.1 % unemployment rate. Yet, France should be doing what is being done elsewhere, especially in Germany, where the rate of youth unemployment is three times lower than in France: 7.7 %.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/government-caring-for-youth-the-path-to-failure/feed/ 0 5 Billion Euros: The Cost of Subsidized Jobs https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/5-billion-euros-the-cost-of-subsidized-jobs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-billion-euros-the-cost-of-subsidized-jobs https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/5-billion-euros-the-cost-of-subsidized-jobs/#respond Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:11:52 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/5-billion-euros-the-cost-of-subsidized-jobs/ “The youth is the utmost priority of my mandate”. Thus spoke François Hollande on January 23, 2013, when wishing a happy new year 2013. “Happy” may not have been the right term, “subsidized” should have been better. Indeed, when saying that 500 000 young people below 25 years-old do not have a job, that 25% of them are unemployed, the French President does not think that entrepreneurship is the solution. On the contrary, for him the Government must spend more money to help create jobs. And President Hollande is generous with public money: no less than 5 billion euros will be wasted on inefficient job policies!

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/5-billion-euros-the-cost-of-subsidized-jobs/feed/ 0 François Hollande’s Tool Box Destroys Employment https://en.irefeurope.org/other-substantive-studies/article/francois-hollande-s-tool-box-destroys-employment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=francois-hollande-s-tool-box-destroys-employment https://en.irefeurope.org/other-substantive-studies/article/francois-hollande-s-tool-box-destroys-employment/#respond Tue, 28 May 2013 11:33:27 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/other-substantive-studies/francois-hollande-s-tool-box-destroys-employment/ The IREF with "Contribuables Associés", the largest French taxpayers association, published a study showing how fiscal pressure destroys employment. The main figures of the study reveal the Government lethal action on companies and jobs:

- 12.2 bn € of new corporate taxes
- Tax burden making a 0.5% GDP decrease
- 99.500 jobs destroyed in 2012, 160.000 scheduled t be destroyed in 2013
- 70.000 jobs destroyed because of tax burden increase in 2013
- 21.5% in big companies and 78.5% in middle and small business

Read the study in French: La Boîte à outil de François Hollande détruit l'emploi

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/other-substantive-studies/article/francois-hollande-s-tool-box-destroys-employment/feed/ 0 The greatest achievement of French statism: high unemployment https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-greatest-achievement-of-french-statism-high-unemployment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-greatest-achievement-of-french-statism-high-unemployment https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-greatest-achievement-of-french-statism-high-unemployment/#respond Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:24:59 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/the-greatest-achievement-of-french-statism-high-unemployment/ By Nicolas Lecaussin

Can you imagine that unemployment has been “priority number one” for French politicians over the past 35 years! Left, right and center have all claimed that their first objective was to reduce unemployment, in particular among young people. Yet they have failed every time. Former president Nicolas Sarkozy regularly repeated that “the French social model has protected us from the crisis”.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/the-greatest-achievement-of-french-statism-high-unemployment/feed/ 0 Unemployment : France is « doing better than the other countries » https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/unemployment-france-is-doing-better-than-the-other-countries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unemployment-france-is-doing-better-than-the-other-countries https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/unemployment-france-is-doing-better-than-the-other-countries/#respond Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:39:11 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/unemployment-france-is-doing-better-than-the-other-countries/ The last statistics from the OECD are unequivocal: the unemployment rate in France is and has always been well above the average for the OECD countries and also above the average of countries from the euro zone. This is a proof that the State is not the solution for unemployment.

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