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Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Autor Isabela Mares
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 feb 2006
Why were European economies able to pursue the simultaneous commitment to full employment and welfare state expansion during the first decades of the postwar period and why did this virtuous relationship break down during recent decades? This book provides an answer to this question, by highlighting the critical importance of a political exchange between unions and governments, premised on wage moderation in exchange for the expansion of social services and transfers. The strategies pursued by these actors in these political exchanges are influenced by existing wage bargaining institutions, the character of monetary policy and by the level and composition of social policy transfers. The book demonstrates that the gradual growth in the fiscal burden has undermined the effectiveness of this political exchange, lowering the ability of unions' wage policies to affect employment outcomes.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521674119
ISBN-10: 0521674115
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: 16 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: does the welfare state hurt unemployment; 1. The economic and political consequences of welfare state maturation; 2. A quantitative analysis; 3. Sweden; 4. Germany; 5. Britain; Conclusion: new social pacts in contemporary Europe.

Recenzii

"There is no doubt at all that this book will change the terms of the debate on the political economy of unemployment. It provides for the first time a simple political economic argument which purports to explain movements of unemployment rates both over time (long periods of time), and across advanced economies. From this perspective it is a huge achievement which Professor Mares manages to make look extremely simple. No other book has tried to explain in a unified way the long term and comparative trends in unemployment. A formidable achievement." David Soskice, Duke University
"The book makes a highly original attempt to account for the secular rise of permanent long-term unemployment in European countries, by incorporating the maturation of the welfare state as an important additional factor in current theories of wage formation. Linking collective bargaining and social policy in a novel way, Mares opens new perspectives on the politics of Social Pacts during the 1990s." Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

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Descriere

This book explains cross-national and temporal changes in employment outcomes.