Employment 'miracles' : a critical comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish cases versus Germany and the US / Uwe Becker, Herman Schwartz (eds.)
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- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2005
- 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9053567550
- Series:
- Changing welfare states.
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"The employment 'miracles' of the late 20th and early 21st century in Australia and smaller European countries like the Netherlands and Denmark have usually been considered the result of macro-economic policy and corporatist negotiations that lead to wave restraint, increased exports, and eventually more jobs. This book shows that accidental circumstances have been just as important as deliberate policies. Particularly striking is the strong correspondence of the housing price bubble-induced wealth effect and related surges in mortgage-financed consumption to the positive economic development and increased employment in most of these 'miracles' - a correspondence that also characterises recent US economic development."--BOOK JACKET.
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- 1. Introduction: Miracles, Mirages and Markets
- Herman Schwartz and Uwe Becker
- Introduction
- Luck, pluck and stuck in the employment miracles
- Globalisation and the miracles
- A specific (corporatist) variety of capitalism?
- What the chapters say
- 2. The Dutch Model: Magic in a Flat Landscape?
- Wiemer Salverda
- Introduction
- Labour market performance
- Economic performance
- Social outcomes
- Policies, the model and the results
- Conclusion: luck, pluck or stuck?
- 3. Employment and Unemployment in Denmark and Sweden: Success or Failure for the Universal Welfare Model?
- Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Anders Lindbom
- Introduction
- Employment and unemployment: what happened?
- Unemployment and employment policies
- Policies and outcome?Is there a link?
- Conclusions
- 4. The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: From Depression to High-Tech Boom
- Jaakko Kiander
- Introduction
- The background of the Finnish miracle: the economic crisis of the 1990s
- Political response to the crisis
- The recovery and the Finnish 'miracle'
- Structural issues: welfare state and labour market institutions
- The Nordic welfare state: Good to economic growth?
- Labour market institutions and corporatism
- Conclusion
- 5. The Swiss Miracle: Low growth and high employment
- Franȯis Xavier Merrien and Uwe Becker
- Introduction
- Corporatism in a fragmented polity
- A coordinated market economy?
- Recent developments
- Economic and labour market development
- Disentangling the Swiss 'miracle'
- An expanding welfare system
- Conclusion
- 6. Recasting the Story of Ireland's Miracle: Policy, Politics, or Profit?
- Mary Daly
- The constituents of economic growth and development
- Possible explanations
- The costs: sustainability?
- The significance of the Irish case
- 7. The Australian Miracle: Luck, Pluck or Being Stuck Down Under?
- Herman Schwartz
- Introduction
- Exports and the current account balance
- Employment and collective bargaining
- Fiscal balance
- Conclusion
- 8. Last Year's Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth
- Cathie Jo Martin
- Introduction
- An American success story
- The American model
- Limits to the liberal market economy model
- Conclusion
- 9. The German Contrast. On Bad Comparisons, Special Circumstances, Luck and Policies That Turned Out to Be Wrong
- Uwe Becker
- 'Germany isn't working'
- The German economy in comparison
- A bad employment record because of labour market and welfare rigidities?
- Accidental circumstances: housing bubble versus unification
- On strong German regions
- Prospects and possible lessons from the 'model cases'
- 10. Conclusion: The Importance of Lucky Circumstances, and Still the Liberal-Social Democratic Divide
- Uwe Becker and Herman Schwartz
- In sum
- Recent developments and prospects
- What is to be learned?
- 'Competitive Corporatism'?
- Still the liberal-social democratic divide
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-278) and index.
- Subject:
- Manpower policy
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