| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Wage Compression and the Unemployment Crisis: Labor Market Institutions, Skills, and Inequality-Unemployment Tradeoffs; 3 Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence; 4 Testing the Flexibility Paradigm: Canadian Labor Market Performance in International Context; 5 Is the OECD Jobs Strategy behind U.S. and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990s?; 6 Labor Market Success and Labor Market Reform: Lessons from Ireland and New Zealand |
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7 Employment Performance and Labor Market Institutions: The Case of Spain8 Is Labor Market Regulation at the Root of European Unemployment? The Case of Germany and the Netherlands; 9 Labor Market Policy, Flexibility, and Employment Performance in Denmark and Sweden in the 1990s; 10 Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: An Assessment; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Critically assessing the widely accepted view that the cause of unemployment is excessive labor market regulation and overly generous welfare state benefits, this book's chapters include both cross-country statistical analyses and country case studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Unemployment -- Developed countries
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Free enterprise -- Developed countries
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Labor market -- Developed countries
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Free enterprise
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Labor market
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Unemployment
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Atur.
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Lliure empresa.
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Mercat de treball.
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Developed countries
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| Genre/Form |
Llibres electrònics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press.
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| ISBN |
0195165845 |
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9780195165845 |
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9780198037088 |
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0198037082 |
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