Employment 'miracles' : a critical comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish cases versus Germany and the US /

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A survey of the 'miracle economies' of the 1990s, that analyses the role of the relatively small size of the economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments. This book examines the rise, in the 1990s, of the model status of the s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Becker, Uwe, 1951-, Schwartz, Herman M., 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Changing welfare states.
Temas:
Labor market > Europe.
Labor market > Australia.
Labor market > United States.
Business cycles > Europe.
Business cycles > Australia.
Business cycles > United States.
Marché du travail > Europe.
Marché du travail > Australie.
Marché du travail > États-Unis.
Cycles économiques > Europe.
Cycles économiques > Australie.
Cycles économiques > États-Unis.
Mathematics and science.
Science: general issues.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Business cycles
Labor market
Werkgelegenheid.
Werkgelegenheidsbeleid.
Economische situatie.
Vergelijkend onderzoek.
Arbeitsmarktpolitik > Beschäftigungsentwicklung > Internationaler Vergleich.
Beschäftigungsentwicklung > Arbeitsmarktpolitik > Internationaler Vergleich.
Australia
Europe
United States
Popular science
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : miracles, mirages and markets / Herman Schwartz and Uwe Becker
  • The Dutch model : magic in a flat landscape? / Wiemer Salverda
  • Employment and unemployment in Denmark and Sweden : success or failure for the universal welfare model? / Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Anders Lindbom
  • The evolution of the Finnish model in the 1990s : from depression to high-tech boom / Jaakko Kiander
  • The Swiss miracle : low growth and high employment / François Xavier Merrien and Uwe Becker
  • Recasting the story of Ireland's miracle : policy, politics or profit? / Mary Daly
  • The Australian miracle : luck, pluck or being stuck down under? / Herman Schwartz
  • Last year's model? reflections on the American model of employment growth / Cathie Jo Martin
  • The German contrast : on bad comparisons, special circumstances, luck and policies that turned out to be wrong / Uwe Becker
  • Conclusion : the importance of lucky circumstances, and still the liberal-social democratic divide / Uwe Becker and Herman Schwartz.

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