Including contributions from some of the world's most respected economists, How to Reduce Unemployment in Europe examines the performance of the European labour market compared to the US market and to the countries in Europe that might represent a best and worst practice, and offers 'An Economists' Manifesto for Employment'.

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FABRIZIO BARCA Ministero del Tesoro, Rome, Italy SERGIO COFFERATI CGIL, Rome, Italy SERGIO D'ANTONI CISL, Rome, Italy JACQUES DREZE Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, France JEAN PAUL FITOUSSI OFCE, Paris, France GIORGIO FOSSA Confindustria, Rome, Italy MARY HARNEY Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Dublin, Ireland PAULO SYLOS LABINI University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy FRANCO MODIGLIANI MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA BENIAMINO MORO University of Cagliari, Italy DENNIS SNOWER Birkbeck College, London, UK ROBERT M. SOLOW MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA GIORGIO SQUINZI Federchimica, Milan, Italy ALFRED STEINHERR Banca Europea degli Investimenti, Basel, Switzerland LESTER C. THUROW MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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PART ONE: EUROPE: A PROPOSAL FOR EMPLOYMENT What does An Economists' Manifesto Contain?; B.Moro The Manifesto's Underlying Concept; M.Baldassarri Unemployment Can and Must be Defeated; F.Modigliani Construction: A Driving Sector; J.Dreze PART TWO: TWO VOICES FROM AMERICA Is There Anything to Learn From US Experience?; R.M.Solow Industrial Flexibility and European Unemployment; L.C.Thurow PART THREE: A EUROPEAN SUCCESS: THE CASE OF IRELAND Ireland's Recipe; M.Harney PART FOUR: ITALY: TRADE UNIONS AND ENTREPRENEURS CGIL's Opinion; S.Cofferati CISL's Opinion; S.D'Antonio Confindustria's Opinion; G.Fossa An Entrepreneur's Experience; G.Squinzi PART FIVE: ITALY: THE ROLE OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Investments and the Role of the Public Administration; F.Barca PART SIX: A MANIFESTO FOR EMPLOYMENT An Economist's Manifesto on Unemployment in the European Union; F.Modigliani, J.P.Fitoussi, B.Moro, D.Snower, R.Solow, A.Steinherr & P.S.Labini