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Baily Martin Neil |
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Transforming the European economy [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Neil Baily, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard |
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Washington, D.C., : Institute for International Economics |
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[London, : Eurospan, distributor], 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-12513-X |
9786611125134 |
0-88132-449-3 |
1-4356-1641-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Europe |
Microeconomics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1 New Policies and New Goals for Changing Times""; ""The Need for Sustained Economic Reform in Europe""; ""Reform Progress to Date""; ""A Framework for Transforming the European Economy""; ""Summarizing the Nature of the Reform Proposals""; ""Feasibility of Reform Proposals""; ""Chapter Summaries""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Chapter 2 Europe's Postwar Success and Subsequent Problems""; ""What Drove Rapid Growth in Postwar Europe?""; ""The European System's Advantages for Postwar Catch-Up"" |
""The 1973-95 Global Growth Slowdown""""The Impact of Slower Productivity Growth: The US Lesson""; ""The Impact of the Productivity Growth Slowdown on the European Economy""; ""Cyclical and Structural Sources of Low Employment""; ""Skill Differences and the Distribution of Wages""; ""Taxes, Transfers, and the Willingness to Work""; ""Demographic Changes: Extended Life Expectancy and Changes in Cohort Size""; ""The Possibility of an Unstable Labor Market: A Warning Parable""; ""Economic Performance since 1995""; ""The Diagnosis""; |
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""Appendix 2.1 A Model of Employment and Productivity"" |
""Chapter 3 What Drives Productivity Growth and How to Improve It in Europe""""Policy Implications of the OECD Growth Analysis""; ""Understanding What Drives Productivity Improvements Based on US Experience""; ""Can Growth Accounting Track US Productivity Trends and Reveal the Role of IT?""; ""Industry Data and Case Studies: How Much More Do They Explain?""; ""A Summary Explanation for the Post-1995 Improvement in US Productivity Growth""; ""Case Study Evidence on the Importance of Regulation and Competition in Europe"" |
""Lessons for Europe about Procompetitive Productivity-Enhancing Regulation""""The Role of IT in Productivity in Europe: Is an IT Policy Needed?""; ""The Role of IT in European Economic Growth""; ""Chapter 4 The Productivity Puzzle in Britain""; ""Economic Performance in the Postwar Period""; ""Resolving the Productivity Puzzle: Capital, Skills, and Other Factors""; ""Productivity Differences Associated with Nationality of Ownership and with Being Part of a Multinational Company""; ""Case Study Evidence of Barriers to Productivity in Britain"" |
""Why Does the OECD Conclude that Product Markets in Britain Are Deregulated?""""Conclusions on the Productivity Gap in Britain""; ""Chapter 5 Reforming the Labor Market and Social Programs""; ""Reform and European Labor-Market Values""; ""Social Policy Reforms""; ""The Wage-Setting Process: Making Jobs Available""; ""Labor-Market Reforms: European Solutions That Have Raised Employment""; ""Appendix 5.1 The Nonobserved Economy, Undeclared Work, and European Economic Reforms""; ""Chapter 6 What Europe Should Do: Getting the Macroeconomics Right""; ""The Stability and Growth Pact"" |
""Fiscal Policy Leading Up to and after the SGP"" |
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