European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis:: Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration

ISBN-13: 9780198717966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 480 str.

Jon Erik Dolvik; Andrew Martin

Opis

Europeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market. The dominant view in controversy over the social models has been that in the name of equity they have impaired the labor market's efficiency, thereby causing unemployment. But doubt is cast on this supply-side-only diagnosis by powerful macroeconomic developments, from the Europe-wide recession following Germany's post-unification boom to the deepest economic crisis since the interwar Great Depression, which the Eurozone's truncated economic governance structure transformed into a sovereign debt crisis, threatening the Euro's and even EU's very survival. This book explores the interaction of Europe's diverse social models with the major developments that shaped their macroeconomic environment over the quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It concludes that this environment rather than the social models are primarily responsible for the immense social costs of the crisis.

Recenzje

impressive volume

O autorze

Jon Erik Dølvik, a sociologist, is Research Director at Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo. He has published extensively in the field of comparative employment relations, social models, and labor migration in the Nordic and European context. Besides stays as visiting scholar abroad, including Harvard's Center for European Studies, he is on the editorial boards of European Journal of Industrial Relations and Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research; Andrew Martin, a political scientist, is a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for European Studies where he co-edits the Center's working papers. He previously taught at Harvard and other universities. His publications include Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society and The Brave New World of European Labor (both co-edited with George Ross) as well as numerous other studies on labor and the comparative politics of economic policy.