| Description |
xiv, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- List of Figures xi -- List of Tables xiii . -- List of Contributors xv -- Introduction 1 -- Gosta Esping-Andersen and Marino Regini -- Part I. Labour Market Reform In -- Europe -- 1 The Dilemmas of Labour Market Regulation 11 -- Marino Regini -- 2 The Dynamics of Labour Market Reform in European -- Countries 30 -- Manuela Samek Lodovici -- 3 Who is Harmed by Labour Market Regulations? -- Quantitative Evidence 66 -- Gosta Esping-Andersen -- 4 Regulation and Context: Reconsidering the Correlates of -- Unemployment 99 -- Gosta Esping-Andersen -- Part Ii. National Variations -- 5 River Crossing or Cold Bath? Deregulation and -- Employment in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s 115 -- Simon Deakin and Hannah Reed -- 6 Going Different Ways: Labour Market Policy in Denmark -- and Sweden -- Anders Bjorklund -- 7 The Dutch Miracle? 181 -- Cees Gorter -- 8 Germany: A Regulated Flexibility 211 -- Susanne Fuchs and Ronald Schettkat -- 9 France: The Deregulation that Never Existed 245 -- Miguel A. Malo, Luis Toharia, and Jerome Gautie -- 10 Italy: The Long Times of Consensual Re-regulation 271 -- Manuel Samek Lodovici -- 11 The Spanish Experiment: Pros and Cons of the -- Flexibility at the Margin -- Luis Toharia and Miguel A. Malo -- Conclusions 336 -- Gosta Esping-Andersen and Marino Regini -- Index |
| Summary |
With contributions from economists, political scientists and sociologists, this volume takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment and regulation in Europe today, utilizing both in-depth nation analyses and broader-based international comparisons |
| Analysis |
Political economy |
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Labour economics |
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Sociology: work & labour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Labor market -- Europe.
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Unemployment -- Europe.
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Labor laws and legislation -- Europe.
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Labor market -- Europe -- Case studies.
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Unemployment -- Europe -- Case studies.
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Labor laws and legislation -- Europe -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Esping-Andersen, Gøsta, 1947-
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Regini, Marino, 1943-
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Oxford Scholarship Online.
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| LC no. |
99057196 |
| ISBN |
0198296819 |
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0199240523 paperback |
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