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Book Social Pacts  Unemployment  and EMU Macroeconomic Policy

Download or read book Social Pacts Unemployment and EMU Macroeconomic Policy written by Andrew Martin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Growth and Cohesion in the European Union

Download or read book Growth and Cohesion in the European Union written by William Mitchell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical review of current fiscal and monetary policy in Europe and presents results of both empirical research and a discussion of the theoretical framework behind the policy of the ECB and the Stability and Growth Pact.

Book The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU

Download or read book The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU written by Gerhard Huemer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume recognises that in the course of European integration, national economic policy makers lose some effective policy instruments. Contributors to this omnibus volume analyse the 'room for maneuvering' available to national and EU economic and social policies under the conditions of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). They explore the possibilities for European coordination and discuss the tasks of employers’ associations and labour unions on the national and EU level in wage, employment and macroeconomic policies. Section 1 of the book deals with the strengths and weaknesses of the EU in the context of global competition. In spite of national differences, many of the EU member countries share important characteristics. Section 2 addresses the need for and the feasibility of policy coordination in the EMU. With the start of the EMU, wage policy will have to bear the main burden of absorbing asymmetrical economic shocks. The authors from the DIW argue that a wage policy favourable to economic growth, employment and convergence has to be guided by the inflation target set by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the long-term increase of productivity in individual countries. A precondition for this kind of wage policy is coordination between the main actors of EU economic policy (ECB, EcoFin, social partners).

Book European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis

Download or read book European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis written by Jon Erik Dølvik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the interaction of European social models, the institutions structuring labor markets' supply side, and their turbulent macroeconomic environment from the deep Europe-wide recession, ending Germanys post-unification boom, through monetary union's establishment, to the Great Recession following the recent financial crisis. The analysis reaches two conclusions challenging the dominant view that the social models caused unemployment by impairing labor markets' efficiency in the name of equity. First, the social models' employment and distributive effects are far outweighed by their macroeconomic environment, especially in the Eurozone, where its truncated structure of economic governance transformed the Great Recession into a sovereign debt crisis. Second, instead of a trade-off between efficiency and equity, the employment effects of counteracting markets tendency to generate inequality depends on the macroeconomic conditions under which it occurs and how it is done.

Book Euros and Europeans

Download or read book Euros and Europeans written by Andrew Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how European national governments have been affected by EMU in their social and industrial policies.

Book EMU

    EMU

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  • Author : Jonathan Coppel
  • Publisher : OECD Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book EMU written by Jonathan Coppel and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. The launch of the euro: economic conditions and prospects - 2. Macroeconomic policies - 3. Susceptibility to shocks - 4. Adaptability to shocks: the role of labour markets.

Book The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU

Download or read book The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU written by Gerhard Huemer and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned authors discuss the present and future roles of employer associations and trade unions at the national level as well as at the EU level under the conditions set by the European Monetary Union.

Book Social Democracy and Monetary Union

Download or read book Social Democracy and Monetary Union written by Ton Notermans and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of disappointment with the neo-liberal experiment, Europeans have been turning back to social democrats since the middle 1990s, but within the European Monetary Union regime that the money interests constructed during the interval. Political scientists from across Europe, and some

Book The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe

Download or read book The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe written by M. Giugni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a novel approach to unemployment as a contested political field in Europe and examines the impact of welfare state regimes, conceived as political opportunity structures specific to this field, public debates and collective mobilizations in unemployment politics.

Book Economics and Politics of Europe

Download or read book Economics and Politics of Europe written by Karl H. Ferthold and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union is running at a fast pace in the area of economic growth. This book examines the inside details of Europe's expansion ranging from policy to exchange rates to employment and unemployment to public opinion.

Book The Political Economy of European Employment

Download or read book The Political Economy of European Employment written by Henk Overbeek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. It combines theoretical chapters with detailed case-studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe.

Book A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme

Download or read book A European Unemployment Benefit Scheme written by Bertelsmann Stiftung and published by Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent euro crisis and the dramatic increase of unemployment in some euro countries have triggered a renewed interest in a fiscal capacity for the European Union to stabilize the economy of its member states. One of the proposed instruments is a common European unemployment insurance. In this book Sebastian Dullien from the HTW Berlin provides and evaluates a blueprint for such a scheme. Building on lessons from the unemployment insurance in the United States of America, he outlines how a European unemployment benefit scheme could be constructed to provide significant stabilization to national business cycles, yet without strongly extending social protection in Europe. Macroeconomic stabilization effects and payment flows between countries are simulated and options, potential pitfalls and existing concerns discussed.

Book Economic Policy Coordination in the Euro Area

Download or read book Economic Policy Coordination in the Euro Area written by Armin Steinbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European debt crisis has given new impetus to the debate on economic policy coordination. In economic literature, the need for coordination has long been denied based on the view that fiscal, wage and monetary policy actors should work independently. However, the high and persistent degree of macroeconomic disparity within the EU and the absence of an optimum currency area has led to new calls for examining policy coordination. This book adopts an institutional perspective, exploring the incentives for policymakers that result from coordination mechanisms in the fields of fiscal, monetary and wage policy. Based on the concept of externalities, the work examines cross-border spillovers (e.g. induced by fiscal policy) and cross-policy spillovers (e.g. between fiscal and monetary policies), illuminating how they have empirically changed over time and how they have been addressed by policymakers. Steinbach introduces a useful classification scheme that distinguishes between vertical and horizontal coordination as well as between cross-border and cross-policy coordination. The author discusses farther-reaching forms of fiscal coordination (e.g. debt limits, insolvency proceedings, Eurobonds) with special attention to how principals of state organization affect their viability. Federal states and Bundesstaaten differ in the incentives they offer for debt accumulation – and thus in their suitability for fiscal coordination. Steinbach finds that the originally strict separation between policy areas has undergone significant change during the debt crisis. Indeed, recent efforts to coordinate policy are no longer limited to one policy area, but now extend to several areas. Steinbach argues that further fiscal policy coordination can be effectively deployed to address policy externalities, but that the coordination mechanisms used must match the form of state organization in the first place. Regarding wage policies, there are significant barriers to coordination. Notwithstanding some empirical successes in the implementation of a productivity-oriented wage policy, the high heterogeneity of national wage-setting institutions is likely to prevent any wage coordination.

Book Labour Costs and Wage Policy Within EMU

Download or read book Labour Costs and Wage Policy Within EMU written by Ben Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution

Download or read book Social Rights and Market Freedom in the European Constitution written by Stefano Giubboni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the development of European labour and social security law as it interrelates with the evolution of market integration in the European Union. Giubboni presents, from a labour law perspective, a case study of the changes the European Community/European Union has undergone from its origins to the present day and of the ways these changes have affected the regulation of European Welfare States at national level. Drawing on the idea of 'embedded liberalism', Giubboni analyses the infiltration of EC competition and market law into national systems of labour and social security law and provides a normative framework for conceptualising the transformation of regulatory techniques implemented at the EU level. This important, interdisciplinary contribution to research in EU social law illustrates how the vision of social protection and solidarity is changing.

Book The Brave New World of European Labor

Download or read book The Brave New World of European Labor written by Andrew Martin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a common framework developed by a collaborative Harvard University and Brandeis University affiliated research team, this volume surveys and analyzes the strategic responses of national unions in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain to the last two decades of economic change. Also evaluated is the response of Sweden, long seen as the most successful variation of the European model, as well as EU level transnational unionism. The volume concludes with a reflection on new union positions and their implications, particularly on the question of what will happen to the "European model of society" as a consequence. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR