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Why Deregulate Labour Markets?
Author(s): Gosta Esping-Andersen
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication Date: 19 Oct. 2000
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199240523
- ISBN-13: 9780199240524
Book Description
Europe’s mass unemployment and the call for extensive labor market de-regulation have, perhaps more than any other contemporary issue, impassioned political debate and academic research. With contributions from economists, political scientists and sociologists, Why Deregulate Labour Markets? takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment and regulation in Europe today, utilizing both in-depth nation analyses and broader-based international comparisons.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is an important and very useful book in summarizing and synthesizing a vast and disparate literature on this issue and clarifying some of the trade offs implicit in pursing the high or low road to flexibility and modernizing labour markets. It should provide a very useful resource for teaching for courses in the humanities and at business schools, as well as providing an important contribution to a debate that has not ended. ― British Journal of Sociology
The arguments are delivered in a clear and systematic way. The book presents a good combination of general, comparative perspectives and a more in-depth presentation of national cases … keeps its distance from statistical macroeconomic approaches: it presents a lot of quantitative material, but also puts it in a social and political context. ―
Quarterly of the European Trade Union InstituteAbout the Author
Gøsta Esping-Andersen ( Professor University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and University of Trento, Italia)
Marino Regini (Professor of Sociology, University of Milano, and Director of IRES Lombardia)
