Changing Welfare States Employment Miracles

Samenvatting

Table of Contents - 6[-]Preface - 10[-]1 Introduction:Miracles,Mirages and Markets - 12[-] Introduction - 12[-] Luck, pluck and stuck in the employment miracles - 17[-] Globalisation and the miracles - 20[-] A specific (corporatist) variety of capitalism? - 26[-] What the chapters say - 35[-]2 The Dutch Model:Magic in a Flat Landscape? - 40[-] Introduction - 40[-] Labour market performance - 43[-] Economic performance - 46[-] Social outcomes - 49[-] Policies, the model and the results - 53[-] Conclusion: luck, pluck or stuck? - 59[-]3 Employment and Unemployment in Denmark and Sweden:Success or Failure for the Universal Welfare Model? - 66[-] Introduction - 66[-] Employment and unemployment: what happened? - 67[-] Unemployment and employment policies - 73[-] Policies and outcome - Is there ... a link? - 78[-] Conclusions - 81[-]4 The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s : From Depression to High-Tech Boom - 88[-] Introduction - 88[-] The background of the Finnish miracle: the economic crisis of the 1990s - 90[-] Political response to the crisis - 94[-] The recovery and the Finnish \'miracle\' - 95[-] Structural issues:welfare state and labour market institutions - 104[-] The Nordic welfare state: Good to economic growth? - 105[-] Labour market institutions and corporatism - 106[-] Conclusion - 108[-]5 The Swiss Miracle:Low growth and high employment - 112[-] Introduction - 112[-] Corporatism in a fragmented polity - 112[-] A coordinated market economy? - 115[-] Recent developments - 116[-] Economic and labour market development - 118[-] Disentangling the Swiss \'miracle\' - 122[-] An expanding welfare system - 128[-] Conclusion - 131[-]6 Recasting the Story of Ireland\'s Miracle:Policy,Politics or Profit? - 134[-] The constituents of economic growth and development - 135[-] Possible explanations - 138[-] The costs: sustainability? - 146[-] The significance of the Irish case - 153[-]7 The Australian Miracle:Luck,Pluck or Being Stuck Down Under? - 158[-] Introduction - 158[-] Exports and the current account balance - 166[-] Employment and collective bargaining - 172[-] Fiscal balance - 179[-] Conclusion - 182[-]8 Last Year\'s Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth - 184[-] Introduction - 184[-] An American success story 185 - 186[-] The American model - 190[-] Limits to the liberal market economy model - 196[-] Conclusion - 203[-]9 The German Contrast.On Bad Comparisons,Special Circumstances,Luck and Policies That Turned Out to Be Wrong - 206[-] \'Germany isn\'t working\' - 206[-] The German economy in comparison - 209[-] A bad employment record because of labour market and welfare rigidities? - 212[-] Accidental circumstances: housing bubble versus unification - 218[-] On strong German regions - 224[-] Prospects and possible lessons from the \'model cases\' - 228[-]10 Conclusion:The Importance of Lucky Circumstances,and Still the Liberal-Social Democratic Divide - 232[-] In sum - 232[-] Recent developments and prospects - 234[-] What is to be learned? - 240[-] \'Competitive Corporatism\'? - 242[-] Still the liberal-social democratic divide - 245[-]Contributors - 280[-]Index - 284[-]Bibliography - 250