Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

With much of Europe plagued by high levels of unemployment, it has become widely accepted that the culprit is labor market rigidity and that the prescription can only be labor market deregulation: lower wages, higher earnings inequality, greater decentralization in bargaining, less generous unemployment benefits, more hiring flexibility, and less job security. Fighting Unemployment critically assesses this free market orthodoxy. With cross-country...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195165853
• ISBN13: 9780195165852
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 8.7"