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Makeshift work in a changing labour market : the Swedish model in the post-financial crisis era

Garsten, Christina (contributor); … - 2015

'Whatever happened to the Swedish model? Once the prime example of a Nordic welfare state, Sweden's labour market is …, Sweden. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, people who had never before had cause to worry about losing their … jobs entered the ranks of the unemployed for the first time. In Sweden, the welfare state has been radically challenged and …

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Regulating working-time transitions in Europe

O'Reilly, Jacqueline (contributor) - 2003

1. Introduction -- 2. Working-time transitions in Sweden -- 3. Regulating working-time transitions in Germany -- 4 …

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Contingent employment in Europe and the United States

Storrie, Donald W. (contributor); … - 2003

contingent employment in Sweden -- 5. Contingent employment in Spain -- 6. Contingent employment in Germany -- 7. Flexible … employment in the USA -- 8. Contingent employment in the Netherlands -- 9. Conclusions : contingent employment in Europe and the …

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Public enterprise revisited : a closer look at the 1954-79 UK labour productivity record

Iordanoglou, Chrisafis H. - 2001

The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly...

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Transatlantic sport : the comparative economics of North American and European sports

Barros, Carlos Pestana (contributor); … - 2002

This book offers a comparative perspective on the economics of sport and highlights both the similarities and differences in the North American and European models of sport. It tackles policy issues, such as the organising, financing and regulation of team sports alongside theoretical issues...

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Employment relations and national culture : continuity and change in the age of globalisation

Pot, Ferrie - 2000

Historically, alternative models of the employment relationship have developed across culturally diverse nation states. However, the trend towards globalization incorporates a powerful force towards an international uniformity of employment relations. Underlying the issues addressed in this book...

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The evaluation of active labour market policies : measures, public private partnerships and benchmarking

Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2007

This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...

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Flexibility and employment security in Europe : labour markets in transition

Muffels, R. J. A. (contributor) - 2008

This book seeks to gain a better understanding of the paradoxical relationship between the alleged need of European labour markets to become more flexible and the way in which national policies pursue this aim without jeopardising existing high standards of income and employment security....

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Labour supply and incentives to work in Europe

Gómez Salvador, Ramón (contributor) - What explains the pattern of labour supply in Europe … - 2005

Labour Supply and Incentives to Work in Europe highlights recent developments in the labour supply in Europe and gives a detailed assessment of their link with economic policies and labour market institutions. Despite major changes in European labour supply during the past few decades, the...

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Labour markets, gender and institutional change : essays in honour of Günther Schmid

Schmid, Günther; Mosley, Hugh; O'Reilly, Jacqueline; … - 2002

The original essays in this book have been written by a number of leading international experts in the field of labour market studies to honour the intellectual contribution and lifetime achievement of Günther Schmid

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