Fighting unemployment [[electronic resource] ] : the limits of free market orthodoxy / / edited by David R. Howell

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.13/7/091722
• Soggetto topico: Unemployment - Developed countries; Free enterprise - Developed countries; Labor market - Developed countries; Atur; Lliure empresa; Mercat de treball
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Altri autori: HowellDavid R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Wage Compression and the Unemployment Crisis: Labor Market Institutions, Skills, and Inequality-Unemployment Tradeoffs; 3 Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence; 4 Testing the Flexibility Paradigm: Canadian Labor Market Performance in International Context; 5 Is the OECD Jobs Strategy behind U.S. and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990's?; 6 Labor Market Success and Labor Market Reform: Lessons from Ireland and New Zealand ; 7 Employment Performance and Labor Market Institutions: The Case of Spain 8 Is Labor Market Regulation at the Root of European Unemployment? The Case of Germany and the Netherlands; 9 Labor Market Policy, Flexibility, and Employment Performance in Denmark and Sweden in the 1990's; 10 Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: An Assessment; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Critically assessing the widely accepted view that the cause of unemployment is excessive labor market regulation and overly generous welfare state benefits, this book's chapters include both cross-country statistical analyses and country case studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fighting unemployment
• ISBN: 0-19-516585-3; 0-19-803708-2; 9781423720490; 9786610558988; 1-4237-2049-0; 1-280-55898-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792266903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II