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| Author: | Rubery, J. Bosch, G. Lehndorff, S. |
| Title: | Surviving the EU? The future for national employment models in Europe |
| Journal: | Industrial Relations Journal
2008 : NOV, VOL. 39:6, p. 488-509 |
| Index terms: | labour markets employment models future Europe European Union |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The European Union (EU) claims to be both the moderniser and the effective saviour of distinctive European ways of doing things. This claim is challenged by this review of the multi-tiered influence of the EU on change in national models. In reshaping national models and in constraining innovation and change to meet new conditions, competition and macroeconomic policy is argued to be more significant than soft law. Lip service is paid by the EU to different paths of development, but the contradictions and synergies across institutional and policy approaches go unrecognized. European employment models are seen as primarily contributing to social protection, but the potential role for distinctive models to promote comparative advantage is not on the policy agenda. |
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