كتاب
Taxation, wage bargaining and unemployment
| العنوان: | Taxation, wage bargaining and unemployment |
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| المؤلفون: | Mares, Isabela. |
| بيانات النشر: | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| وصف مادي: | xviii, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Europe -- Economic policy., Europe -- Social policy., Manpower policy -- Europe., Welfare state -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century., Wages -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century., Labor unions -- Sweden -- History -- 20th century., Welfare state -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Wages -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Labor unions -- Germany -- History -- 20th century., Welfare state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century., Wages -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century., Labor unions -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Europe -- Economic policy., Europe -- Social policy. |
| الوصف: | This text highlights the critical importance of a political exchange between unions and governments, based on wage moderation in exchange for the expansion of social services. It demonstrates that the gradual growth in the fiscal burden has undermined the effectiveness of this political exchange. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction: does the welfare state hurt employment? -- Developments in European labor markets: two theoretical perspectives -- The argument -- The organization of the study -- The economic and political consequences of welfare state maturation -- Labor market institutions and economic performance -- Labor market institutions and monetary policy -- A theoretical synthesis: labor market institutions, monetary policies and the welfare state -- Looking ahead -- Appendix -- Equilibrium prices and consumption -- Derivation of trade unions' optimal wage demands -- Proofs of comparative statics results -- Centralization of the wage bargaining system: a comparison with the Calmfors-Driffill approach -- A quantitative analysis -- Testing the model: measurement of the central explanatory variables -- The dependent variable: the employment performance of OECD economies -- Regression analysis -- Conclusions -- Sweden: Policy developments in the immediate postwar years -- The Rehn-Meidner model -- Wage and social policy developments of the 1960s -- Strains on the system: interunion rivalry, 1970-1976 -- Policy developments under conservative governments, 1976-1982 -- The return of the social democrats, 1982-1990 -- The double sacrifice: wage and social policy developments of the 1990s -- Conclusion -- Germany: The wage-social policy nexus during the Adenauer-Erhard period, 1950-1966 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the Grand coalition, 1966-1969 -- Wage bargaining and social policy expansion in the Brandt era, 1969-1974 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the social-liberal coalition, 1974-1982 -- The consequences of welfare state maturation: wage and social policy developments, 1982-1990 -- The aftermath of German reunification, 1990-1997 -- Conclusions -- Britain: Wage developments of the postwar years, 1945-1950 -- Social policy and wage moderation under the conservatives, 1951-1964 -- The Labor government, 1964-1970 -- Conservatives again, 1970-1974 -- The social contract, 1974-1979 -- The conservative attack on the social wage, 1980-1996 -- Welfare state and labor market reforms under New Labour -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: new social pacts in contemporary Europe -- The theoretical argument -- Implications for the politics of new social pacts. |
| Original Identifier: | ocm60245457 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-521-85742-0 978-0-521-67411-9 0-521-85742-2 0-521-67411-5 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009898098.X |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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