He also said that creating a more flexible jobs market was essential.

America’s more flexible jobs market makes it far easier and cheaper to lay off workers.

Switzerland has a more flexible job market than neighbouring countries and the unemployment rate is very low.

Today's flexible jobs markets allow oil shocks to be absorbed less harmfully.

The region has one of the most flexible job markets in the technology sector, and people are often employed by other companies after a start-up fails.

Business leaders like the flexible job market and still think we have competitive financial markets (though they have slipped from second to fifth in the world).

This time, the leaders also agreed to changes aimed at consolidating a single market in financial services by 2005 and creating a more flexible job market.

The strike was called after the Government approved new laws that make it easier to dismiss workers and introduced other measures intended to create a more flexible job market.

Trichet devoted most of his speech to the ECB's long-standing call for more flexible job markets in the 15-member euro zone. '

"Whether the economy is on an upslide and good employees are hard to come by or the economy is in recession and cutting back, the flexible job market is an untapped resource."

Richard Perks, a wealth analyst at Mintel, a market intelligence company, said rising wages, a flexible job market and increasing meritocracy would continue to have positive impacts on Britain’s economic growth.

As a result of this decline, and a more flexible job market, the path whereby a young man would choose a profession, train, join a union and follow in his father’s footsteps is increasingly rare.

She called for more innovation, improved technologies and a strengthened European domestic market and more flexible job market and less bureaucracy as key elements needed in order to ease the problems in the long term.

A member argued that universities could do a much better job promoting to 17 year olds that breadth provides the flexibility to change their mind, and gives them more space when they are moving into a flexible job market.

All of this has to do with a number of aspects: some are related to the job market, because we need a flexible job market, not a rigid one; others are related to productivity, financial policies and tax incentives.

Thousands of French workers are leaving home, where ambition is often stifled by poor prospects or discrimination, to benefit from the flexible job market in London hailed by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrives here Wednesday.

The President said that to produce jobs, each of the Group of Seven nations - Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the United States - must do more to retrain workers, improve productivity and promote a more flexible job market.

Now Spain needs other adjustment mechanisms: lower wages to restore cost competitiveness to its firms and a flexible job market to speed the flow of workers from industries such as construction, which catered to a boom fired by domestic demand, to export firms that can generate the revenues to service Spain’s debts.

I was talking to Paul Collier about urbanisation in Africa and the need for a flexible job market.

In a modern economy, we need a flexible labour market.

A more flexible labour market has not stopped pay going up.

We are an open, trading economy with a flexible labour market.

What we want is a flexible labour market so people can get jobs, come out of unemployment and find work.

We need flexible labour markets and less spending in the countries concerned.

With lower taxes and a more flexible labour market, Europe can enter the new economy.

Flexible labour markets and lower wages are, however, not enough.

British business rightly places a high value on our flexible labour market.

Our flexible labour market has saved jobs and we should not wish it away.

We need, however, a more flexible labour market, less bureaucracy and greater personal responsibility.

A more flexible labour market may benefit both employers and employees.

"In Britain there is a flexible labour market," he says.

It is a question of ensuring that we can actually have flexible labour markets.

Britain has a flexible labour market and high youth unemployment.

The general trend on the continent is for more flexible labour markets.

In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on “skilling up” young people.

Britain has been able to attract foreign companies to set up here in part because of its flexible labour markets.

In a sense, this is a success for the flexible labour market as lower wages have helped to preserve and create jobs.

British business leaders have supported it, stating that they provide a flexible labour market.

Ireland, which has a flexible labour market, appears to have been successful in cutting its costs.

On the reform measures, several colleagues have mentioned flexible labour markets.

"Britain has one of the most flexible labour markets in the world.

This concept should create flexible labour markets that are also in line with a high level of employment security.

The fact that employment has been so strong is a tribute to Britain's flexible labour market.

Training schemes need to be effective to prepare people for an increasingly flexible labour market in the future.

In a modern economy, we need a flexible labour market.

A more flexible labour market has not stopped pay going up.

We are an open, trading economy with a flexible labour market.

What we want is a flexible labour market so people can get jobs, come out of unemployment and find work.

We need flexible labour markets and less spending in the countries concerned.

With lower taxes and a more flexible labour market, Europe can enter the new economy.

Flexible labour markets and lower wages are, however, not enough.

British business rightly places a high value on our flexible labour market.

Our flexible labour market has saved jobs and we should not wish it away.

We need, however, a more flexible labour market, less bureaucracy and greater personal responsibility.

The ability to fire workers not only means less unemployment but more flexible labor markets.

By then the flexible labor market had been in tow for more than two decades.

A more flexible labour market may benefit both employers and employees.

"In Britain there is a flexible labour market," he says.

He believes that, too, can be explained by flexible labor markets.

Especially in the years to come, the US needs a flexible labor market.

It is a question of ensuring that we can actually have flexible labour markets.

Britain has a flexible labour market and high youth unemployment.

The general trend on the continent is for more flexible labour markets.

A flexible labor market, as many suggest, will not in itself promote inclusion.

In countries with more flexible labour markets, the emphasis tends to be on “skilling up” young people.

Britain has been able to attract foreign companies to set up here in part because of its flexible labour markets.

In a sense, this is a success for the flexible labour market as lower wages have helped to preserve and create jobs.

Close families and flexible labor markets don’t go together.

British business leaders have supported it, stating that they provide a flexible labour market.