Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets Klaus F. Zimmermann D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic

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Most of the recent literature on labor market institutions draws on reforms rather than on cross-country variation in regulatory levels. This is a significant improvement with respect to the earlier literature which was based on somewhat arbitrary one-dimensional indicators of multi

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“It’s the job market, stupid.”1 Few European institutions have had the bad pressgiven to the labor market. The standard expla-nation of why advanced Europe has generated less work per adult than the United States is that some-thing is seriously amiss with EU labor markets. Labor institutions

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∗I have benefitted from the comments of numerous seminar participants. I am particularly grateful to Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan for comments, to Aspen Gorry for research assistance, and to the NSF for financial support. 1.