  Building competitiveness  Insider aiding  Europe’s labour
markets have favoured older workers at the expense of younger
ones. The latest in an occasional series on structural reform
See article  Readers' comments    Allow me to dissent on the
following:  "The easier it is for employers to fire, the quicker
they are to hire.": Making dismissals cheaper is an incentive to
dismissals, not to hiring.  "Laws like minimum wages foster
unemployment because there will always be those who lack the
necessary ability to earn money for their employers equal to or
above the legislated minimum wage.": You're implying that
employment status and waged income is a direct result of
personal ability or productivity. This may be true in essays by
Milton Friedman and in Conservative Party manifestos. However,
reality -of which you claim to be a paladin- suggests that
employment status and income obey to a more complex social
dynamic whereby socioeconomic background plays an overriding
role. Is it infrequent to see top Engineer