Fighting unemployment
Subtitle: the limits of free market orthodoxy
By: edited by David R. Howell.
Contributors: Howell, David R.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Unemployment -- Developed countries; Free enterprise -- Developed countries; Labor market -- Developed countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Wage compression and the unemployment crisis : labor market institutions, skills, and inequality-unemployment tradeoffs / David R. Howell and Friedrich Huebler; title: Labor market institutions and unemployment : a critical assessment of the cross-country evidence / Dean Baker ... [et al.]; title: Testing the flexibility paradigm : Canadian labor market performance in international context / Jim Stanford; title: Is the OECD jobs strategy behind U.S. and British employment and unemployment success in the 1990s? / John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Labor market success and labor market reform : lessons from Ireland and New Zealand / Andrew Glyn; title: Employment performance and labor market institutions : the case of Spain / Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente; title: Is labor market regulation at the root of European unemployment? The case of Germany and the Netherlands / Ronald Schettkat; title: Labor market policy, flexibility, and employment performance in Denmark and Sweden in the 1990s / Peter Plougmann and Per Kongshøj Madsen; title: Labor market institutions and unemployment : an assessment / David R. Howell.