Seeking a Premier Economy : The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the world, marked by transformed welfare and industrial relations systems and broad privatization. Virtually every industry and government program has been affected by the reforms, from hospitals and schools to labor unions and jobless benefit programs.Seeking a Premier Economy focuses on the labor and product

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Card, David
Other Persons:	Blundell, Richard (contributor) ; Freeman, Richard B. (contributor)
Publisher:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Subject:	Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| Wirtschaftsreform \| Economic reform \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (524 p.)
Series:	NBER-Comparative Labor Markets Series National Bureau of Economic Research Comparative Labor Markets Series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Seeking a Premier Economy The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?; 2. Seeking a Premier-League Economy: The Role of Privatization; 3. Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: U.K. Evidence; 4. Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing; 5. The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain; 6. Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s 7. Labor Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States8. Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work; 9. Mobility and Joblessness; 10. Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labor Market?; 11. Active Labor Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
ISBN:	978-0-226-09284-3 ; 978-0-226-09290-4 ; 978-0-226-09284-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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