Euro area labour markets and the crisis
总结了欧元体系2012年结构问题报告的主要发现，描述了自大衰退以来欧元区劳动力市场的发展及其对错配和长期失业的影响，并提出了增加劳动力市场灵活性的政策建议。
The article summarises the main findings of the Eurosystem’s 2012 Structural Issues Report (SIR) and highlights some specific aspects for Belgium. It describes the main developments on euro area labour markets since the start of the Great Recession and its impact on mismatches and long-term unemployment. The ensuing policy conclusions refer to detrimental factors like wage rigidities, hysteresis and labour market segmentation and aim at increasing labour market flexibility so as to facilitate the ECB’s price-stability-oriented monetary policy.