Economic governance and employment
Subtitle: policy, polity and politics of economic rise and decline
By: Arne Heise
Series: Studien zur Staatswissenschaft -- Bd. 1 = -- Studies in economic governance; Studies in economic governance -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: Lit; Global [distributor]; Distributed in North America by Transaction; distributed in North America by Transaction
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9783825809744
Subjects: Labor market; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Economic history
Description: "The unemployment performance in OECD countries has been divers over the past decades. A growing "Varieties of capitalism"-literature focuses on institutional differences in social welfare, labour market and collective bargaining systems and recommends a curtailment of social provisions and a deregulation of labour markets. This book takes a different approach: market constellations (institutionally embedded macropolicy regimes) are central to divergent employment performances. And the willingness to create pro-employment market constellations depends largely on vested interests of the elites."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-221).
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Employment systems in international comparison : plan of the study and its relation to the varieties-of-capitalism literature -- -- 2.; title: Market constellations and employment performance -- is there a macroeconomic story? -- -- 3.; title: Institutional embeddedness of market constellations -- is superior economic performance governable? -- -- 4.; title: The political economy of meritocracy -- political barriers to full employment? -- -- 5.; title: From vested interests to policy : the case of Social Democratic politics in Germany 1997- -- -- 6.; title: Policy, polity and politics of economic rise and decline -- some concluding remarks.