04836nam 2200661Ia 450 991045194850332120200520144314.01-281-12513-X97866111251340-88132-449-31-4356-1641-3(CKB)1000000000481517(EBL)3385465(SSID)ssj0000261468(PQKBManifestationID)11191769(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261468(PQKBWorkID)10256791(PQKB)10937303(MiAaPQ)EBC3385465(Au-PeEL)EBL3385465(CaPaEBR)ebr10202512(CaONFJC)MIL112513(OCoLC)427506912(EXLCZ)99100000000048151720030815d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTransforming the European economy[electronic resource] /Martin Neil Baily, Jacob Funk KirkegaardWashington, D.C. Institute for International Economics ;[London Eurospan, distributor]20041 online resource (357 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-88132-343-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""; ""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""Structural adjustment (Economic policy)EuropeMicroeconomicsElectronic books.Structural adjustment (Economic policy)Microeconomics.338.5094Baily Martin Neil147315Kirkegaard Jacob F869668Institute for International Economics (U.S.)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451948503321Transforming the European economy1944230UNINA