The Social Challenge of Job Creation: Combating Unemployment in Europe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858984599 ISBN 13: 9781858984599

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

The Social Challenge of Job Creation brings together a distinguished group of economists and sociologists to provide a broad, accessible and multidisciplinary assessment of job creation in Europe.

This major volume discusses the role of labour market institutions and the nature of their interaction with other economic and social regulations. The European case is discussed in depth with a focus on issues such as the extent to which US labour market institutions can be adapted to European societies, and the problem of the long-term unemployed. Two chapters are explicitly devoted to Spain which constitutes a paramount example of the job creation failure in Europe. An introductory chapter summarizes the main conclusions of the book. Among other results, the authors highlight the importance of systemic and carefully balanced labour market reforms.

The Social Challenge of Job Creation provides a rigorous yet accessible broad assessment of the policy alternatives which could lead to increased job creation in the European economy.

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Edited by Jordi Gual, Deputy Director General, Head of Research, Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona - ‘la Caixa’, Spain

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858984599
• ISBN 13: 9781858984599
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Gual Jordi