Is Labor Market Regulation at the Root of Unemployment?: The Case of Germany and the Netherlands

Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Schettkat, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Deregulation; Employment; Flexibility; Germany; Labor costs; Labor market; Labor market institutions; Netherlands; Regulation; Unemployment; Unemployment benefits; Unification; Wage inequality; Wages; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0195165845.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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