What Poland needs most is fiscal discipline and market oriented reforms, including relaxation of the rigid labor laws that are inhibiting job creation.

Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.

Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.

It would ensure enforceable international human rights, environmental, and labor laws.

And labor laws would be revised to strengthen the role of unions.

High tax rates on labor together with rigid regulation of hiring and firing make employers extremely reluctant to recruit workers.

Military discipline is literally rigid.

Minimum wage laws and labor agreements often make the least productive workers unaffordable to law abiding employers.

Europe has a general macroeconomic problem, owing to demand factors that interact with a rigid labor market, rather than a specific youth unemployment problem.

In Europe, they are excluded from employment by labor agreements and in some cases by minimum wage laws.

And labor mobility, a long run goal in the EU, is constrained by language, laws, and diverse regulatory regimes.

The DR CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization s core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard. Instead, countries are committed only to enforcing their own labor laws, which often seem designed to prevent workers from joining a union.

This does not mean imposing rigid inflation targets.

Since laws are not the answer to child labor, many experts propose compulsory education as a means to curb it.

By contrast, the more liberal labor laws in the United States and the United Kingdom ensure more opportunities for outsiders.

Rigid as it was, with an extensive welfare system and an over regulated labor market, Germany was unable to react to these shocks and ran into trouble.

Any common eurozone unemployment scheme would thus risk financing the long term unemployment created by rigid national labor market institutions, which for decades have proved impervious to reforms.

Although he does want to make the French labor market less rigid, he would block foreign takeover bids of French companies and protect Airbus workers from possible job losses.

Instead, countries are committed only to enforcing their own labor laws, which often seem designed to prevent workers from joining a union.

Her rigid tail was outstretched, only its very tip twitching.

Tom's father is very dogmatic and rigid in his views.

Indonesia, like many other countries in Asia and the Middle East, excludes domestic workers or pembantu rumah tangga from its national labor laws.

Master of laws

Strict IP laws.

They hate laws.

Laws are necessary.

Indeed, European firms, probably in a response to rigid labor markets, have for at least twenty years been using technologies that are much more capital intensive than that of US firms.

Lumpy Labor

Labor Policy.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

It kills creativity and lead to a rigid and distorted market.

Removing barriers to human mobility such as labor laws, state specific social welfare programs, and housing market distortions should be an integral part of development.

Removing barriers to human mobility such as labor laws, state specific social welfare programs, and housing market distortions  should be an integral part of development.

Laws, Homosexuality, and Society

New people, new laws.

Laws cannot be constant.

They hate the laws.

Are all laws just?

I hate the laws.

I hate the laws.

Laws should be respected.

Tom broke numerous laws.

What laws were broken?

The laws have changed.

Rigid timetables that history suggests would not be met should be eschewed.