LEADER 04803nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910778266603321 005 20230617042209.0 010 $a1-281-12513-X 010 $a9786611125134 010 $a0-88132-449-3 010 $a1-4356-1641-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000481517 035 $a(EBL)3385465 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000261468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000261468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256791 035 $a(PQKB)10937303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3385465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3385465 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10202512 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL112513 035 $a(OCoLC)427506912 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000481517 100 $a20030815d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransforming the European economy$b[electronic resource] /$fMartin Neil Baily, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cInstitute for International Economics ;$a[London $cEurospan, distributor]$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-88132-343-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Fiscal Policy Leading Up to and after the SGP"" 606 $aStructural adjustment (Economic policy)$zEurope 606 $aMicroeconomics 615 0$aStructural adjustment (Economic policy) 615 0$aMicroeconomics. 676 $a338.5094 700 $aBaily$b Martin Neil$0147315 701 $aKirkegaard$b Jacob F$01492874 712 02$aInstitute for International Economics (U.S.) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778266603321 996 $aTransforming the European economy$93715587 997 $aUNINA