Structural unemployment in Western Europe : reasons and remedies / / Martin Werding, editor.

• Superior document: CESifo seminar series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Werding, Martin.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: CESifo seminar series.
• Physical Description: viii, 350 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Introduction: still more questions than answers / Martin Werding -- A picture of European unemployment: success and failure / Stephen Nickell -- The continent's high unemployment: possible institutional causes and some evidence / Edmund S. Phelps -- From excess to shortage-recent developments in the Danish labor market / Torben M. Andersen -- The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment / Bertil Holmlund -- Rising unemployment at the start of the twenty-first century: has the Dutch miracle come to an end / Jan C. van Ours -- The un-intended convergence: how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level / Erkki Koskela and Roope Uusitalo -- When unemployment disappears: Ireland in the 1990s / Brendan Walsh -- Unemployment in Britain: a European success story / Christopher A. Pissarides -- The surprising French unemployment performance: what lessons? / Jean Pisani-Ferry -- Unemployment in Germany: reasons and remedies / Norbert Berthold and Rainer Fehn -- The structure and history of Italian unemployment / Giuseppe Bertola and Pietro Garibaldi -- Spanish unemployment: the end of the wild ride? / Samuel Bentolila and Juan F. Jimeno.