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There are plans to free up the labour market, to open up closed professions, but there is huge resistance.
BBC: Bond deal brings Greece little comfort
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He pledged to get France back to work, to scrap exorbitant public-sector privileges, to cut taxes and to set free a strangled labour market.
ECONOMIST: France
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But it will do little to free up the labour market.
ECONOMIST: France's new government
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The job-placement business has thrived in Britain's free-ish labour market.
ECONOMIST: Regulation
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Although some steps have been taken to free up the labour market, it remains a daunting task to set up a new business in France and take on staff.
BBC: EU austerity: No quick fix for Spain
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Free of high taxes, onerous labour-market restrictions and red tape, German businesses thrive in the shadows.
ECONOMIST: Wirtschaftsblunder
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New Labour's ideological accommodations with free-market economics were tolerated by many in the party only because it was a winning creed.
ECONOMIST: The trade unions are not as fearsome as they look
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His hesitation has been understandable: powerful lobbies on one side have insisted that fast-track deals must be Christmas-treed with onerous labour and environmental provisions, while free-market Republicans vowed to kill any fast-track so adorned.
ECONOMIST: The United States looks south
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That means boosting productivity through labour-market reform, immigration policies and free trade, none of which the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has been keen on so far.
ECONOMIST: Deflation in Japan
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Unlike Labour, however, Tories believe that such institutions thrive best in a free market with limited government.
ECONOMIST: David Willetts reshuffles Toryism
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EU's single market, which embodies the Rome treaty's principles of a free flow of goods, services, labour and capital.
ECONOMIST: And the one that should live on