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Unemployment, Competitiveness and the Welfare State

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Equity, Efficiency and Growth

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Fifteen years ago, presidential candidate Francois Mitterand char¬acterized full employment as a moral obligation: «A country like ours, with 1,500,000 unemployed, ceases to be a free country». But today, France has unemployment, at 3.1 million, of twice that level.

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  1. Columbia University, USA

    Robert Mundell

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  1. University ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Italy

    Mario Baldassarri (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. University ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy

    Luigi Paganetto (Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration) (Professor of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)

  3. Columbia University, New York, USA

    Edmund S. Phelps (McVickar Professor of Political Economy) (McVickar Professor of Political Economy)

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Mundell, R. (1996). Unemployment, Competitiveness and the Welfare State. In: Baldassarri, M., Paganetto, L., Phelps, E.S. (eds) Equity, Efficiency and Growth. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24649-6_6

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