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Employment effects of the European internal market

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The completion of the European internal market is generally expected to have beneficial welfare and growth effects. To what extent will they lead to a change in employment? How will the employment effects be distributed among countries, industries and social groups?

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  1. Cf. P. Cecchini et al.: The European Challenge. The Benefits of a Single Market, Aldershot 1988; EC Commission: The Economics of 1992. An assessment of the potential economic effects of completing the internal market of the European Community, European Economy No. 35; for a description of the effects and a critique of the findings, see also F. Franzmeyer: Was wird der europäische Binnenmarkt für die Entwicklung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der EG bedeuten?, published by epd Dokumentation, No. 9/89, pp. 33–47.

  2. See also. F. Franzmeyer, op. cit. Was wird der europäische Binnenmarkt für die Entwicklung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt der EG bedeuten?, published by epd Dokumentation, No. 9/89, p. 41; and F. Franzmeyer: Gesamtwirtschaftliche und strukturelle Aspekte der Vollendung des europäischen Binnenmarktes, in: Arbeitskreis Außenpolitik der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Horst Ehmke (ed.): Europäischer Binnenmarkt—Europäischer Sozialraum, Zusammenfassung der Redebeiträge der Anhörung vom 2. Mai 1988, pp. 37–44, here p. 41.

  3. For studies using similar methods, see for example A. Sapir and D. Schumacher: The Employment Impact of Shifts in the Composition of Commodity and Services Trade, in: OECD: Employment Growth and Structural Change, Paris 1985, pp. 115–127; B. Balassa: The Employment Effects of Trade in Manufactured Products Between Developed and Developing Countries, in: Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 8, pp. 371–390; or D. Schumacher: Employment Impact in the European Economic Community (EC) Countries of East-West Trade Flows, International Employment Policies Working Paper No. 24, International Labour Office, Geneva 1989.

  4. For details of the findings, see G. Nerb: The Completion of the Internal Market: A Survey of European Industry’s Perception of the Likely Effects, Research on the “Cost of Non-Europe”, Basic Findings Vol. 3, Luxembourg 1988; G. Nerb: Was erwartet die europäische Industrie vom EG-Binnenmarkt?, in: ifo-schnelldienst, No. 16, 1988, pp. 14–23.

  5. Taken from the COMTAP data base of the OECD; see C. Berthet-Bondet, D. Blades and A. Pin: The OECD Compatible Trade and Production Data Base 1970–1985, OECD Department of Economics and Statistics, Working Paper No. 60, Paris 1988.

  6. Cf. G. Nerb: Was erwartet die europäische Industrie vom EG-Binnenmarkt?, op. cit. in: ifo-schnelldienst, No. 16, 1988, p. 23.

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Schumacher, D. Employment effects of the European internal market. Intereconomics 24, 259–267 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924732

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