Is the OECD Jobs Strategy behind U.S. and British Employment and Unemployment Success in the 1990s?

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Schmitt, John ^a   Wadsworth, Jonathan ^b,c  

^a Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Employment; Flexibility; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Less educated (less skilled) workers; Regulation; Unemployment; Unemployment benefits; United Kingdom; United States; Wage inequality (wage dispersion); Wages; Welfare state; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0005     Document Type: Chapter

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