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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199240884

ISBN-139780199240883

eBay Product ID (ePID)102871665

Product Key Features

Number of Pages420 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWelfare and Work in the Open Economy : from Vulnerability to Competitiveness

Publication Year2001

SubjectLabor & Industrial Relations, Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Women in Business, Public Policy / Social Policy, Public Policy / Economic Policy

TypeTextbook

AuthorVivien A. Schmidt

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight21.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-040079

ReviewsThese books are major benchmark studies of welfare states and the problems of adjustment, and provide lucid and valuable analyses of contemporary capitalism., Much of the two books is taken up with charting in very rich and absorbing detail the precise nature of responses and adjustments. There are some truly excellent country studies.

IllustratedYes

Volume NumberVol. 1

Table Of Content1. Introduction3. Internationalization and two liberal welfare states: Australia and New Zealand4. Switzerland: Adjustment politics within institutional constraints5. How small countries negotiate change - twenty-five years of policy adjustment in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium6. Adjusting badly: The German welfare state, structural change, and the open economy7. France: Directing adjustment?8. Italy: Rescue from without?9. Sweden and Denmark: Defending the Welfare State10. A fine balance: Women's labor market participation in international comparison11. Any way out of exit from work? Reversing the entrenched pathways of early retirement?12. After liberalization: Public-interest services and employment in the utilities13. Adjusting national tax policy to economic internationalization - strategies and outcomes

SynopsisIn this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Rejecting any notion of convergence to some kind of neo-liberal orthodoxy, they find that most countries have remained true to the basic features of their postwar model as they have liberalized. Moreover, within different welfare-state constellations, while some countries are still struggling to adjust, others have reached a new sustainable equilibrium. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies in the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition., In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading sholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Volume I presents comparative analyses of different countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies on the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition., In this ground-breaking, two-volume study of the adjustment of advanced welfare states to international economic pressures, leading scholars detail the wide variety of responses in twelve countries. Volume I presents comparative analyses of differences in countries' vulnerabilities and capabilities, the effectiveness of their policy responses, and the role of values and discourse in the politics of adjustment. Volume II presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom as well as special studies on the participation of women in the labour market, early retirement, the liberalization of public services, and international tax competition.

LC Classification NumberHN17.5.W45 2000