Fighting unemployment : the limits of free market orthodoxy /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Howell, David R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Wage compression and the unemployment crisis : labor market institutions, skills, and inequality-unemployment tradeoffs / David R. Howell and Friedrich Huebler
  • Labor market institutions and unemployment : a critical assessment of the cross-country evidence / Dean Baker [and others]
  • Testing the flexibility paradigm : Canadian labor market performance in international context / Jim Stanford
  • Is the OECD jobs strategy behind U.S. and British employment and unemployment success in the 1990s? / John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth
  • Labor market success and labor market reform : lessons from Ireland and New Zealand / Andrew Glyn
  • Employment performance and labor market institutions : the case of Spain / Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente
  • Is labor market regulation at the root of European unemployment? The case of Germany and the Netherlands / Ronald Schettkat
  • Labor market policy, flexibility, and employment performance in Denmark and Sweden in the 1990s / Peter Plougmann and Per Kongshøj Madsen
  • Labor market institutions and unemployment : an assessment / David R. Howell.