The European Tribune is a forum for thoughtful dialogue of European and international issues. You are invited to post comments and your own articles.
Please REGISTER to post.
But calls have gone out from Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd1 saying that this is A Very Bad Idea, because the problem is not with competitiveness, it is with a lack of demand, which is not solved by wage cuts - quite the contrary, they make things worse. (Translation into ET-speak: This is a demand-side crisis, and trying to solve it with supply-side policies is - at best - a beggar-thy-neighbour strategy.)
- Jake
1) AE-rådet are the serious people employed by the labour unions to try to spread a little sanity in public debate. Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
this is A Very Bad Idea, because the problem is not with competitiveness, it is with a lack of demand, which is not solved by wage cuts - quite the contrary, they make things worse
Skilled labour is another story.
Still, it's nothing that higher unemployment subsidies cannot solve.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Wages per hour will not be reduced by this plan. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Frank Schnittger - Jan 22 2 comments
by Cat - Jan 25 15 comments
by Frank Schnittger - Jan 26
by Oui - Jan 9 21 comments
by Frank Schnittger - Jan 13 28 comments
by gmoke - Jan 20
by Oui - Jan 15 90 comments
by gmoke - Jan 7 13 comments
by Oui - Jan 2712 comments
by Cat - Jan 2515 comments
by Frank Schnittger - Jan 222 comments
by Oui - Jan 219 comments
by Oui - Jan 21
by Oui - Jan 20
by Oui - Jan 1839 comments
by Oui - Jan 1590 comments
by Oui - Jan 144 comments
by Frank Schnittger - Jan 1328 comments
by Oui - Jan 1212 comments
by Oui - Jan 1120 comments
by Oui - Jan 1031 comments
by Oui - Jan 921 comments
by NBBooks - Jan 810 comments
by Oui - Jan 717 comments
by gmoke - Jan 713 comments
by Oui - Jan 68 comments