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The Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A European Unemployment Miracle?
- Abstract:
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Unemployment rates in both the UK and the Netherlands have declined substantially since the early 1980s. This has been a decline in equilibrium unemployment, the result of combinations of supply-oriented policies. The combinations are partly overlapping and partly differing between the two countries. The main difference is in wage negotiations: where the Dutch unions were already co-operative, British unions were made to co-operate. The main overlap is in the popularity of part-time work and ...
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing
- Journal:
- Economic Policy
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 30
- Pages:
- 135 - 180
- Publication date:
- 2000-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0266-4658
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10609
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- 2000
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