Sentence examples for rigid market from inspiring English sources

"Japan has an old, closed and rigid market," says Son. "But the U.S. had great growth from the 1980s because of the information revolution and the financial revolution.

Having an affordable, high-speed connection "would make the video market work more like an actual free market, one where consumers are sovereign and innovation is unshackled from an anachronistic and rigid market structure," he wrote in a recent report for Free Press.

Inevitably, as a result of the EMU and, naturally, neoliberal globalisation, overall rather than sporadic growth is by no means a certainty because the mechanisms resorted to are dictated exclusively by rigid market forces.

Other euro economies with rigid markets have held up better.

Back then, France had one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe, along with particularly rigid markets for goods and labour: it was seen as a likely victim of the new regime.

They run through the familiar litany of Europe's failings: high unemployment, despite all those new jobs; rigid markets for goods, services and labour; and burdensome taxes.You can perhaps reconcile these two extremes, suggests Mr Eichengreen, if you choose your periods carefully.

First, as already mentioned, unlike wage cyclicality estimates for countries with flexible labour markets, this study provides one estimate for a rigid labour market scenario.

Mr Berlusconi, a tycoon turned politician, promised to speed up privatisation, overhaul the creaking state pensions system, loosen Italy's rigid labour market, cut taxes, make the government step back and let market forces work their magic.

The reforms, which coincided with a swing toward pro-market policies in the United States, included liberalizing Japan's rigid labor market and forcing banks to cut off support to heavily indebted "zombie" companies.

In a similar vein it has been argued that prolonged job searches may indeed be thought to increase job quality in more liberal labour markets compared to rigid labour markets with strict employment protection legislation (EPL) (see Schmelzer [2012]).

While France retains a reputation for a rigid labor market, many of the executive said Monday that this was often outweighed by positive factors, including a large domestic market, low-cost energy, good infrastructure and well-trained workers.