Author: Torben Iversen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645324
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Examines why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Explores wage bargaining institutions, macro-economic policy regimes, and the welfare state. Argues that unemployment is the outcome of interaction between the centralization of the wage bargaining system and the character of the monetary policy regime.