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001 2005012019
003 DLC
005 20050610095408.0
008 050428s2005 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005012019
020 $a0521857422 (hardback)
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050 00 $aHC240$b.M244 2005
082 00 $a331.11/094/0904$222
100 1 $aMares, Isabela.
245 10 $aTaxation, wage bargaining and unemployment /$cIsabela Mares.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$cc2005.
263 $a0603
300 $ap. cm.
440 0 $aCambridge studies in comparative politics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: does the welfare state hurt employment? -- Developments in European labor markets: two theoretical perspectives -- The argument -- The organization of the study -- The economic and political consequences of welfare state maturation -- Labor market institutions and economic performance -- Labor market institutions and monetary policy -- A theoretical synthesis: labor market institutions, monetary policies and the welfare state -- The impact of social policies: labor market outsiders and social services -- Comparative statics -- Looking ahead -- Appendix -- Equilibrium prices and consumption -- Derivation of trade unions' optimal wage demands -- Proofs of comparative statics results -- Centralization of the wage bargaining system: a comparison with the Calmfors-Driffill approach -- A quantitative analysis -- Testing the model: measurement of the central explanatory variables -- Wage bargaining centralization -- Monetary non-accommodation -- The magnitude and composition of welfare state commitments -- The dependent variable: the employment performance of OECD economies -- Regression analysis -- Conclusions -- Sweden: Policy developments in the immediate postwar years -- The Rehn-Meidner model -- Wage and social policy developments of the 1960s -- Strains on the system: inter-union rivalry, 1970-1976 -- Policy developments under conservative governments, 1976-1982 -- The return of the social democrats, 1982-1990 -- The double sacrifice: wage and social policy developments of the 1990s -- Conclusion -- Germany: The wage-social policy nexus during the Adenauer-Erhard period, 1950-1966 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the Grand coalition, 1966-1969 -- Wage bargaining and social policy expansion in the Brandt era, 1969-1974 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the social-liberal coalition, 1974-1982 -- The consequences of welfare state maturation: wage and social policy developments, 1982-1990 -- The aftermath of German reunification, 1990-1997 -- Conclusions -- Britain: Wage developments of the postwar years, 1945-1950 -- Social policy and wage moderation under the conservatives, 1951-1964 -- The Labor government, 1964-1970 -- Conservatives again, 1970-1974 -- The social contract, 1974-1979 -- The conservative attack on the social wage, 1980-1996 -- Welfare state and labor market reforms under New Labour -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: new social pacts in contemporary Europe -- The theoretical argument -- Implications for the politics of new social pacts.
650 0 $aEurope$xEconomic policy.
650 0 $aEurope$xSocial policy.
650 0 $aManpower policy$zEurope.
650 0 $aWelfare state$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWages$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLabor unions$zSweden$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWelfare state$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWages$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLabor unions$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWelfare state$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWages$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLabor unions$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005012019.html