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Working Time Reduction and the Crisis in the Welfare State: The Future of the Welfare State. Vol. III (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789070776114)
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xDuring the crisis of the thirties many economists and others discussed working time reduction as a policy instrument to combat unemployment. Their contributions were mainly theoretical and contained only incidentally empirical information. However, confronted with persistent umemployment in the late seventies and eighties, the discussion on working time reduction has started up once again. Today, researchers use more and better statistical data and sophisticated macro-economic models to study the viability of working time reduction as an instrument of solving the unemployment problem in a socially acceptable way.
Clearly, there are considerable differences in scope between the various contributions in this volume. The paper by Kok and de Neubourg reviews the empirical information at our disposal today and investigates what we can learn from it. It discusses the changes in working time over the past century in an international comparative context and developments in eight industrial countries are studied: Canada, France, West Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The paper by Schettkat also offers an economic analysis. The contribution of Dercksen and Soeters and that of Hinrichs, Offe and Wiesenthal, on the other hand, are mainly sociological. In looking at the incentives, constraints and options of the various actors, the latter two still arrive at rather different conclusions as to the way in which shorter working hours should, and can, be achieved.
Author: Philippe Pochet
ISBN-10: 9070776111
ISBN-13: 9789070776114
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 141
Format: Paperback
Clearly, there are considerable differences in scope between the various contributions in this volume. The paper by Kok and de Neubourg reviews the empirical information at our disposal today and investigates what we can learn from it. It discusses the changes in working time over the past century in an international comparative context and developments in eight industrial countries are studied: Canada, France, West Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The paper by Schettkat also offers an economic analysis. The contribution of Dercksen and Soeters and that of Hinrichs, Offe and Wiesenthal, on the other hand, are mainly sociological. In looking at the incentives, constraints and options of the various actors, the latter two still arrive at rather different conclusions as to the way in which shorter working hours should, and can, be achieved.
Author: Philippe Pochet
ISBN-10: 9070776111
ISBN-13: 9789070776114
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 141
Format: Paperback
By Philippe Pochet
xThe Editors: Alfred Kleinknecht holds the degree of «Diplom Volkswirt» from the Free University of Berlin and a doctorate in economics from the Free University of Amsterdam. He was a research fellow at the International Institute of Management at the Berlin Wissenschaftszentrum (1977-1980) and at the Free University of Amsterdam (1980-1984). In 1984 he joined the new Faculty of Economics of Limburg University. His latest publication is «Innovation Patterns in Crisis and Prosperity: Schumpeter's Long Cycle Reconsidered», London: Macmillan 1986.
Tom van Veen (1953) studied economics at the Universities of Rotterdam and Groningen. He lectured at the University of Groningen and is now teaching economics at University of Limburg. He has published on «Education and the economy» (with W. Albeda) and «Voter reaction as a welfare state stabiliser» (with P.K. Keizer). He is currently doing research on wage formation.
Tom van Veen (1953) studied economics at the Universities of Rotterdam and Groningen. He lectured at the University of Groningen and is now teaching economics at University of Limburg. He has published on «Education and the economy» (with W. Albeda) and «Voter reaction as a welfare state stabiliser» (with P.K. Keizer). He is currently doing research on wage formation.
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