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Fighting unemployment : the limits of free market orthodoxy / edited by David R. Howell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unemployment--Developed countries.
- Unemployment.
- Free enterprise--Developed countries.
- Free enterprise.
- Labor market--Developed countries.
- Labor market.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 1990's?; 6 Labor Market Success and Labor Market Reform: Lessons from Ireland and New Zealand
- 7 Employment Performance and Labor Market Institutions: The Case of Spain 8 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 1990's; 10 Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: An Assessment; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780195165845
- 9786610558988
- 9780190290160
- 0190290161
- 9780195165852
- 0195165853
- 9780198037088
- 0198037082
- 9781423720492
- 1423720490
- 9781280558986
- 1280558989
- OCLC:
- 191826487
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