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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823364303321

Titolo

Structural unemployment in Western Europe : reasons and remedies / / Martin Werding, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006

ISBN

0-262-30845-2

1-282-09778-4

9786612097782

0-262-28599-1

1-4237-7256-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 350 p. : ill

Collana

CESifo seminar series

Classificazione

83.61

Altri autori (Persone)

WerdingMartin

Disciplina

331.13/7041094

Soggetti

Structural unemployment - Europe, Western

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: still more questions than answers / Martin Werding -- A picture of European unemployment: success and failure / Stephen Nickell -- The continent's high unemployment: possible institutional causes and some evidence / Edmund S. Phelps -- From excess to shortage-recent developments in the Danish labor market / Torben M. Andersen -- The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment / Bertil Holmlund -- Rising unemployment at the start of the twenty-first century: has the Dutch miracle come to an end / Jan C. van Ours -- The un-intended convergence: how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level / Erkki Koskela and Roope Uusitalo -- When unemployment disappears: Ireland in the 1990s / Brendan Walsh -- Unemployment in Britain: a European success story / Christopher A. Pissarides -- The surprising French unemployment performance: what lessons? / Jean Pisani-Ferry -- Unemployment in Germany: reasons and remedies / Norbert Berthold and Rainer Fehn -- The structure and history of Italian unemployment / Giuseppe Bertola and Pietro Garibaldi -- Spanish unemployment: the end of the wild ride? / Samuel Bentolila and Juan F. Jimeno.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent



unemployment across Western Europe in light of the developments in labour market theory. This work explains the emergence and persistence of unemployment.