Sentence examples for rigid markets from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

Rather they are microeconomic, reflecting the failure of several countries to reform rigid labour markets and overly regulated product markets.

But rigid labour markets probably matter even more.

Rigid labor markets and high-cost government pension plans would inevitably wither away.

AT THE moment, Europeans are basking in their rigid labour markets.

Spain has one of the most rigid job markets in the developed world.