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050 0 0 |a HC240  |b .M244 2006 
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100 1 |a Mares, Isabela. 
245 1 0 |a Taxation, wage bargaining and unemployment /  |c Isabela Mares. 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2006. 
300 |a xviii, 266 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
440 0 |a Cambridge studies in comparative politics 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-252) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: does the welfare state hurt employment? -- Developments in European labor markets: two theoretical perspectives -- The argument -- The organization of the study -- The economic and political consequences of welfare state maturation -- Labor market institutions and economic performance -- Labor market institutions and monetary policy -- A theoretical synthesis: labor market institutions, monetary policies and the welfare state -- Looking ahead -- Appendix -- Equilibrium prices and consumption -- Derivation of trade unions' optimal wage demands -- Proofs of comparative statics results -- Centralization of the wage bargaining system: a comparison with the Calmfors-Driffill approach -- A quantitative analysis -- 
505 0 |a Testing the model: measurement of the central explanatory variables -- The dependent variable: the employment performance of OECD economies -- Regression analysis -- Conclusions -- Sweden: Policy developments in the immediate postwar years -- The Rehn-Meidner model -- Wage and social policy developments of the 1960s -- Strains on the system: interunion rivalry, 1970-1976 -- Policy developments under conservative governments, 1976-1982 -- The return of the social democrats, 1982-1990 -- The double sacrifice: wage and social policy developments of the 1990s -- Conclusion -- Germany: The wage-social policy nexus during the Adenauer-Erhard period, 1950-1966 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the Grand coalition, 1966-1969 -- 
505 0 |a Wage bargaining and social policy expansion in the Brandt era, 1969-1974 -- Wage bargaining and social policy developments under the social-liberal coalition, 1974-1982 -- The consequences of welfare state maturation: wage and social policy developments, 1982-1990 -- The aftermath of German reunification, 1990-1997 -- Conclusions -- Britain: Wage developments of the postwar years, 1945-1950 -- Social policy and wage moderation under the conservatives, 1951-1964 -- The Labor government, 1964-1970 -- Conservatives again, 1970-1974 -- The social contract, 1974-1979 -- The conservative attack on the social wage, 1980-1996 -- Welfare state and labor market reforms under New Labour -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: new social pacts in contemporary Europe -- The theoretical argument -- Implications for the politics of new social pacts. 
651 0 |a Europe  |x Economic policy. 
651 0 |a Europe  |x Social policy. 
650 0 |a Manpower policy  |z Europe. 
650 0 |a Welfare state  |z Sweden  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Wages  |z Sweden  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Labor unions  |z Sweden  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Welfare state  |z Germany  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Wages  |z Germany  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Labor unions  |z Germany  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Welfare state  |z Great Britain  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Wages  |z Great Britain  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Labor unions  |z Great Britain  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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