| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Changing welfare states |
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Changing welfare states.
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| Contents |
Introduction : miracles, mirages and markets / Herman Schwartz and Uwe Becker -- The Dutch model : magic in a flat landscape? / Wiemer Salverda -- Employment and unemployment in Denmark and Sweden : success or failure for the universal welfare model? / Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Anders Lindbom -- The evolution of the Finnish model in the 1990s : from depression to high-tech boom / Jaakko Kiander -- The Swiss miracle : low growth and high employment / François Xavier Merrien and Uwe Becker -- Recasting the story of Ireland's miracle : policy, politics or profit? / Mary Daly -- The Australian miracle : luck, pluck or being stuck down under? / Herman Schwartz -- Last year's model? reflections on the American model of employment growth / Cathie Jo Martin -- The German contrast : on bad comparisons, special circumstances, luck and policies that turned out to be wrong / Uwe Becker -- Conclusion : the importance of lucky circumstances, and still the liberal-social democratic divide / Uwe Becker and Herman Schwartz |
| Summary |
A survey of the 'miracle economies' of the 1990s, that analyses the role of the relatively small size of the economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments. This book examines the rise, in the 1990s, of the model status of the smaller economies, and the accounts given for their success |
| Analysis |
Popular science |
| Notes |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed July 3, 2005) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Labor market -- Europe
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Labor market -- Australia
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Labor market -- United States
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Business cycles -- Europe
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Business cycles -- Australia
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Business cycles -- United States
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Mathematics and science.
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Science: general issues.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Business cycles
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Labor market
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Werkgelegenheid.
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Werkgelegenheidsbeleid.
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Economische situatie.
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Vergelijkend onderzoek.
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik -- Beschäftigungsentwicklung -- Internationaler Vergleich.
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Beschäftigungsentwicklung -- Arbeitsmarktpolitik -- Internationaler Vergleich.
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Australia
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Europe
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Becker, Uwe, 1951-
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Schwartz, Herman M., 1958-
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| ISBN |
1423709632 |
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9781423709633 |
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9789048503834 |
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9048503833 |
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9789053567555 |
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9053567550 |
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9781280959165 |
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1280959169 |
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9786610959167 |
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6610959161 |
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