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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

By Kathleen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thelen

3 Ratings • 4.3 of 5

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This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. H...Show more

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9781107679566

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Cambridge University Press

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2014

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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