Unions, Employers, and Central Banks - Macroeconomic Coordination Institutional Change in Social Market

Klappentext Focuses on important political-economic changes in industrialized countries! namely unemployment and inequality. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on some of the most important political-economic changes in advanced industrialized countries over the past two decades! namely! unemployment and the growth of inequality. Focusing on Northern Europe! the book explores the intersection of partisan politics! the international economy! and nationally specific institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Comparative political economy: Northern European perspective Torben Iversen and Jonas Pontusson; 2. Macroeconomic analysis and the political economy of unemployment David Soskice; Part I. Wage Bargaining: 3. The Swedish employer offensive against centralized bargaining Peter Swenson and Jonas Pontusson; 4. Post-war wage setting in the Nordic countries Michael Wallerstein and Miriam Golden; 5. Why German employers cannot bring themselves to dismantle the German model Kathleen Thelen; Part II. Macroeconomic Regimes: 6. Institutional dimensions of coordinating wage bargaining and monetary policy Robert Franzese and Peter Hall; 7. Decentralization, monetarism and the social democratic welfare state Torben Iversen; 8. The politics of macroeconomic policy and wage negotiations in Sweden Andrew Martin; Part III. Macroeconomic and Distributive Outcomes: 9. Public sector unions, corporatism and wage determination Geoffrey Garrett and Christopher Way; 10. Labor-market institutions and wage distribution Jonas Pontusson.

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• Authors: Torben (Harvard University Iversen, Torben Pontusson Iversen
• Assisted by: Torben Iversen (Editor), Iversen Torben (Editor), Jonas Pontusson (Editor), Pontusson Jonas (Editor), David Soskice (Editor), Soskice David (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521788847
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78884-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Politics & government, Political Economy, Politics and government