Employment 'Miracles' (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US
Redaktion: Becker, Uwe; Schwartz, Herman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why did some economies experience a boom in the 1990s? Employment 'Miracles' comparatively analyses select miracle economies. The contributors to the volume critically analyze how the small size and institutional structure of seven countries like the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland accounted for their success and status as economic models. Comparisons with the American and German markets reveal how differing policies - liberal versus corporatist/social democratic - determine job growth and levels of income inequality and poverty. The book also stresses the explanatory relevance of lucky circumstances such as the housing price bubble. Employment 'Miracles' is an important resource for political scientists and economists in their study of employment development. A critical scrutiny of the 'miracle economies' of the 1990s, analysing the role of the relatively small size of the national economies in question, and of accidental external circumstances which contributed to favourable developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040772782
• Artikelnr.: 75564133

Autorenporträt

Uwe Becker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and co-ordinator of an international research project on the socio-economic develop[1]ment of European corporatist countries. Herman Schwartz is Professor of Political Science at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville and director of the Graduate Studies Department of Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Introduction: Miracles
Mirages and Markets
Introduction
Luck
pluck and stuck in the employment miracles
Globalisation and the miracles
A specific (corporatist) variety of capitalism? What the chapters say
2 The Dutch Model: Magic in a Flat Landscape? Introduction
40 Labour market performance
Economic performance
Social outcomes
Policies
the model and the results
Conclusion: luck
pluck or stuck? 3 Employment and Unemployment in Denmark and Sweden: Success or Failure for the Universal Welfare Model? Introduction Employment and unemployment: what happened? Unemployment and employment policies
Policies and outcome - Is there a link? Conclusions 4 The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s : From Depression to High-Tech Boom
Introduction
The background of the Finnish miracle: the economic crisis of the 1990s
Political response to the crisis
94 The recovery and the Finnish 'miracle'
Structural issues: welfare state and labour market institutions
The Nordic welfare state: Good to economic growth? Labour market institutions and corporatism
Conclusion
5 The Swiss Miracle: Low growth and high employment
Introduction
Corporatism in a fragmented polity
A coordinated market economy? Recent developments
Economic and labour market development
Disentangling the Swiss 'miracle'
An expanding welfare system
Conclusion
6 Recasting the Story of Ireland's Miracle: Policy
Politics or Profit? The constituents of economic growth and development
Possible explanations
The costs: sustainability? The significance of the Irish case
7 The Australian Miracle: Luck
Pluck or Being Stuck Down Under? Introduction
Exports and the current account balance
166 Employment and collective bargaining
Fiscal balance
Conclusion
8 Last Year's Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth
Introduction
An American success story The American model
Limits to the liberal market economy model
Conclusion
9 The German Contrast. On Bad Comparisons
Special Circumstances
Luck and Policies That Turned Out to Be Wrong
'Germany isn't working'
The German economy in comparison
A bad employment record because of labour market and welfare rigidities? Accidental circumstances: housing bubble versus unification
On strong German regions
Prospects and possible lessons from the 'model cases'
10 Conclusion: The Importance of Lucky Circumstances
and Still the Liberal-Social Democratic Divide
In sum
Recent developments and prospects
What is to be learned? 'Competitive Corporatism'? Still the liberal-social democratic divide
Contributors
Index
Bibliography.