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9780521788847

Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies

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    9780521788847

  • ISBN10:

    0521788846

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book focuses on some of the most important political-economic changes in advanced industrialized countries over the past two decades, namely, the sharp rise in unemployment in some countries and the growth of inequality in others. Using a variety of methodological approaches, the essays provide different pieces to this puzzle and explain how economic outcomes may be linked to macroeconomic policies and wage bargaining practices. Focusing on the experiences of northern European countries, the book also explores the intersection of partisan politics, the international economy, and nationally specific institutions.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Contributors xiii
Preface xv
Comparative Political Economy: A Northern European Perspective
1(37)
Torben Iversen
Jonas Pontusson
Macroeconomic Analysis and the Political Economy of Unemployment
38(39)
David Soskice
Part I: Wage Bargaining
The Swedish Employer Offensive against Centralized Bargaining
77(30)
Peter Swenson
Jonas Pontusson
Postwar Wage Setting in the Nordic Countries
107(31)
Michael Wallerstein
Miriam Golden
Why German Employers Cannot Bring Themselves to Dismantle the German Model
138(35)
Kathleen Thelen
Part II: Macroeconomic Regimes
Institutional Dimensions of Coordinating Wage Bargaining and Monetary Policy
173(32)
Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
Peter A. Hall
Decentralization, Monetarism, and the Social Democratic Welfare State
205(27)
Torben Iversen
The Politics of Macroeconomic Policy and Wage Negotiations in Sweden
232(35)
Andrew Martin
Part III: Macroeconomic and Distributive Outcomes
Public-Sector Unions, Corporatism, and Wage Determination
267(25)
Geoffrey Garrett
Christopher Way
Labor Market Institutions and Wage Distribution
292(39)
Jonas Pontusson
Index 331

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