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Klappentext This book examines the consequences and interconnections between unemployment and European unification. Zusammenfassung This book is about unemployment and European unification. It examines the consequences of each and their interconnections. Its central argument is that the European economy should be reformed but that it should retain many of its managed aspects and be wary of modeling itself on the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Nancy Bermeo; Part I. Macroeconomic Contexts and Models: 1. Unemployment, job creation and economic and monetary union David Cameron; 2. Organized market economies and unemployment in Europe: is it finally time to accept liberal orthodoxy? Peter Hall; 3. Globalization, welfare states and employment: is there a European 'third way'? Martin Rhodes; Part II. Unemployment and Domestic Bargaining Institutions: Challenging Some Myths: 4. Labor decline and wage growth in the advanced capitalist countries, 1965-93 Bruce Western and Kieran Healey; 5. Unemployment and union destiny Lyle Scruggs and Peter Lange; Part III. Unemployment and Domestic Bargaining Institutions: Examining Three Cases: 6. Unemployment and trade union strength in Portugal Alan Stoleroff; 7. Trade unions, unemployment, and working class fragmentation in Spain Andrew Richards and Javier Polavieja; 8. Modell Nederland: social partnership and competitive corporatism in the Netherlands Steven B. Wolinetz; Part IV. Unemployment, Voting, and Political Behavior: 9. Desperate times call for desperate measures? Unemployment and voter behavior in comparative perspective Christopher Anderson; 10. The politics of unemployment: the Spanish experience in comparative perspective José Maria Maravall and Marta Fraile; Conclusion; 11. Unemployment, the New Europe, and the old iniquities Nancy Bermeo.
