Unemployment in the New Europe

Description

The movement for European integration has yielded a European Union of fifteen states with a unified monetary system that will eventually embrace over 370 million people. If current trends continue, an average of one in ten of these people will be unemployed. This book is about unemployment and European unification. It examines the consequences of each and their interconnections. It presents general essays on Europe as a whole, on labor unions and on a variety of case studies including Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands. Its central argument is that the European economy should be reformed but that it should retain many of its managed aspects and be wary of modeling itself on the United States. The book contributes to the literature on European politics, political economy, and comparative public policy.

'It is highly recommended to those who are not primarily interested in the social consequences, but in the potential political ramifications of high unemployment and the sustainability of the European social model.' Western European Politics 'This collection of articles addresses an important political and academic question for Europe - the causes of and solutions to widespread unemployment ... Unemployment in the New Europe offers a solid theoretical, economic, and political analysis of European unemployment ... the quality of scholarship is excellent.' Journal of Contemporary European studies