Labor Market Policy, Flexibility, and Employment Performance: Denmark and Sweden in the 1990s

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Plougmann, Peter ^a   Madsen, Per Kongshøj ^b  

^a New Insight A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Active labor market policies; Denmark; Deregulation; Employment; Flexibility; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Regulation; Sweden; Unemployment; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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