Book contents
- Forntmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Miracles, Mirages and Markets
- 2 The Dutch Model: Magic in a Flat Landscape?
- 3 Employment and Unemployment in Denmark and Sweden: Success or Failure for the Universal Welfare Model?
- 4 The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: From Depression to High-Tech Boom
- 5 The Swiss Miracle: Low growth and high employment
- 6 Recasting the Story of Ireland’s Miracle: Policy, Politics or Profit?
- 7 The Australian Miracle: Luck, Pluck or Being Stuck Down Under?
- 8 Last Year’s Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth
- 9 The German Contrast. On Bad Comparisons, Special Circumstances, Luck and Policies That Turned Out to Be Wrong
- 10 Conclusion: The Importance of Lucky Circumstances, and Still the Liberal-Social Democratic Divide
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2021
- Forntmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Miracles, Mirages and Markets
- 2 The Dutch Model: Magic in a Flat Landscape?
- 3 Employment and Unemployment in Denmark and Sweden: Success or Failure for the Universal Welfare Model?
- 4 The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: From Depression to High-Tech Boom
- 5 The Swiss Miracle: Low growth and high employment
- 6 Recasting the Story of Ireland’s Miracle: Policy, Politics or Profit?
- 7 The Australian Miracle: Luck, Pluck or Being Stuck Down Under?
- 8 Last Year’s Model? Reflections on the American Model of Employment Growth
- 9 The German Contrast. On Bad Comparisons, Special Circumstances, Luck and Policies That Turned Out to Be Wrong
- 10 Conclusion: The Importance of Lucky Circumstances, and Still the Liberal-Social Democratic Divide
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Employment 'Miracles'A Critical Comparison of the Dutch, Scandinavian, Swiss, Australian and Irish Cases versus Germany and the US, pp. 5 - 8Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2005