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Mass unemployment : international experience and lessons for policy

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  • Richard Jackman

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While variations across countries in the experience of mass unemployment have been extensively analysed, the even more striking variation over time is much less well understood. This paper argues that the capacity of a nation to maintain full employment by means of 'Keynesian' fiscal and monetary policies is constrained no longer so much by the need to contain inflationary pressures (where the wage setting arrangements of corporatist countries are an advantage) as by the growth of international trade and capital mobility. It is argued that traditional corporatist institutions are not well-suited to these developments.

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  • Richard Jackman, 1993. "Mass unemployment : international experience and lessons for policy," Finnish Economic Papers, Finnish Economic Association, vol. 6(1), pages 5-12, Spring.
    • Handle: RePEc:fep:journl:v:6:y:1993:i:1:p:5-12
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    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E60 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - General

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