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Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment / Isabela Mares.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mares, Isabela.
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions.
- History.
- Wages.
- Welfare state.
- Europe--Economic policy.
- Europe.
- Economic policy.
- Europe--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Manpower policy--Europe.
- Manpower policy.
- Welfare state--Sweden--History--20th century.
- Wages--Sweden--History--20th century.
- Labor unions--Sweden--History--20th century.
- Welfare state--Germany--History--20th century.
- Wages--Germany--History--20th century.
- Labor unions--Germany--History--20th century.
- Germany.
- Welfare state--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Wages--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Labor unions--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Sweden.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- This book explains cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Does the Welfare State Hurt Employment? 1
- Developments in European Labor Markets: Two Theoretical Perspectives 3
- The Argument 10
- The Organization of the Study 15
- 1 The Economic and Political Consequences of Welfare State Maturation 17
- Labor Market Institutions and Economic Performance 19
- Labor Market Institutions and Monetary Policy 27
- A Theoretical Synthesis: Labor Market Institutions, Monetary Policies, and the Welfare State 35
- Looking Ahead 47
- 1 Equilibrium Prices and Consumption 50
- 2 Derivation of Trade Unions' Optimal Wage Demands 52
- 3 Proofs of Comparative Statics Results 56
- 4 Centralization of the Wage Bargaining System: A Comparison with the Calmfors-Driffill Approach 58
- 2 A Quantitative Analysis 61
- Testing the Model: Measurement of the Central Explanatory Variables 62
- The Dependent Variable: The Employment Performance of OECD Economies 71
- 3 Sweden 83
- Policy Developments in the Immediate Postwar Years 84
- The Rehn-Meidner Model 87
- Wage and Social Policy Developments of the 1960s 94
- Strains on the System: Interunion Rivalry, 1970-1976 100
- Policy Developments Under Conservative Governments, 1976-1982 104
- The Return of the Social Democrats, 1982-1990 108
- The Double Sacrifice: Wage and Social Policy Developments of the 1990s 115
- 4 Germany 128
- The Wage-Social Policy Nexus During the Adenauer-Erhard Period, 1950-1966 129
- Wage Bargaining and Social Policy Developments Under the Grand Coalition, 1966-1969 142
- Wage Bargaining and Social Policy Expansion in the Brandt Era, 1969-1974 146
- Wage Bargaining and Social Policy Developments Under the Social-Liberal Coalition, 1974-1982 151
- The Consequences of Welfare State Maturation: Wage and Social Policy Developments, 1982-1990 160
- The Aftermath of German Reunification, 1990-1997 167
- 5 Britain 174
- Wage Developments of the Postwar Years, 1945-1950 175
- Social Policy and Wage Moderation Under the Conservatives, 1951-1964 179
- The Labor Government, 1964-1970 188
- Conservatives Again, 1970-1974 194
- The Social Contract, 1974-1979 199
- The Conservative Attack on the Social Wage, 1980-1996 206
- Welfare State and Labor Market Reforms Under New Labour 213
- Conclusion: New Social Pacts in Contemporary Europe 219
- The Theoretical Argument 220
- Implications for the Politics of New Social Pacts 223.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Apr 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511625688
- 9780521857420
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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