Research Catalog

Title

Structural unemployment in Western Europe : reasons and remedies / Martin Werding, editor.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Werding, Martin.

Description

viii, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

CESifo seminar series

Uniform Title

CESifo seminar series.

Subject

• Structural unemployment > Europe, Western

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction : still more questions than answers / Martin Werding -- 2. A picture of European unemployment : success and failure / Stephen Nickell -- 3. The continent's high unemployment : possible institutional causes and some evidence / Edmund S. Phelps -- 4. From excess to shortage - recent developments in the Danish labor market / Torben M. Andersen -- 5. The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment / Bertil Holmlund -- 6. Rising unemployment at the start of the twenty-first century : has the Dutch miracle come to an end? / Jan C. van Ours -- 7. The un-intended convergence : how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level / Erkki Koskela and Roope Uusitalo -- 8. When unemployment disappears : Ireland in the 1990s / Brendan Walsh -- 9. Unemployment in Britain : a European success story / Christopher A. Pissarides -- 10. The surprising French employment performance : what lessons? / Jean Pisani-Ferry -- 11. Unemployment in Germany : reasons and remedies / Norbert Berthold and Rainer Fehn -- 12. The structure and history of Italian unemployment / Giuseppe Bertola and Pietro Garibaldi -- 13. Spanish unemployment : the end of the wild ride? / Samuel Bentolila and Juan F. Jimeno.

ISBN

• 0262232464 (alk. paper)
• 0262023246 (alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2005054483

OCLC

• ocm61724507
• SCSB-5925500

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries