Ebook: Why deregulate labour markets?

The dilemmas of labour market regulation / Marino Regini -- The dynamics of labour market reform in European countries / Manuela Samek Lodovici -- Who is harmed by labour market regulations? Quantitative evidence ; Regulation and context: reconsidering the correlates of unemployment / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- River crossing or cold bath? Deregulation and employment in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s / Simon Deakin and Hannah Reed -- Going different ways: labour market policy in Denmark and Sweden / Anders Björklund -- The Dutch miracle? / Cees Gorter -- Germany: a regulated flexibility / Susanne Fuchs and Ronald Schettkat -- France: the deregulation that never existed / Migel A. Malo, Luis Toharia, and Jerome Gautié -- Italy: the long times of consensual re-regulation / Mauel Samek Lodovici -- The Spanish experiment: pros and cons of the flexibility at the margin / Luis Toharia and Miguel A. Malo.;With contributions from economists & political scientists, this text takes a hard look at the empirical connections between unemployment & regulation in Europe today, utilising both in-depth nation analyses & broader international comparisons.