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Unions, central banks, and EMU : labour market institutions and monetary integration in Europe / Bob Hancké.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191638206
  • 019163820X
  • 9780191749193
  • 0191749192
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unions, central banks, and EMU.DDC classification:
  • 332.494 23
LOC classification:
  • HG925
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding EMU: The Role of Labour Market Institutions -- 1.1. The Puzzle of EMU -- 1.2. Understanding the Crisis of EMU -- 1.3. Bringing Labour Markets Back In -- 1.4. The Argument in Brief -- 2. The Other Road to Maastricht: Currency Blocs, Wage Moderation, and Social Conflict -- 2.1. The Big Shift: Labour Unions and Central Banks -- 2.2. Constructing the Deutschmark-Bloc -- 2.3. The Maastricht Treaty and Social Pacts -- 2.4. Central Banks and Labour Unions at the Threshold of EMU -- 3. The Perils of Coordination: Wages and Labour Relations from the European Monetary System to EMU -- 3.1. National Labour Relations in a Single Currency Union -- 3.2. The Elusive Quest for International Wage Coordination -- 3.3. Central Wage Determination and Decentralized Labour Relations -- 4. Diversity without Unity: Labour Unions and Wage Setting in EMU -- 4.1. Labour Unions in a Monetary Union -- 4.2. Trade Unions in Exposed and Sheltered Sectors --
Note continued: 4.3. Wage Shadowing, Competitiveness, and Dual Europe -- 5. The Perverse Effects of Beneficial Constraints: Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance in Europe -- 5.1. Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance -- 5.2. Aggregate Demand Regimes and Different Economic Growth Models -- 5.3. Wage-Setting and Comparative Advantage -- 5.4. Wages, Real Exchange Rates, and Current Accounts -- 6. The Missing Link: Labour, Inflation, and EMU -- 6.1. Monetary Integration in Europe: New and Unanswered Questions -- 6.2. The Future of EMU: Dark Linings in Dark Clouds.
Summary: This title examines the crisis of EMU through the lenses of comparative political economy. It retraces the development of wage-setting systems in the core and peripheral EMU member states, and how these contributed to the increasing divergence between creditor and debtor states in the late 2000s.
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This title examines the crisis of EMU through the lenses of comparative political economy. It retraces the development of wage-setting systems in the core and peripheral EMU member states, and how these contributed to the increasing divergence between creditor and debtor states in the late 2000s.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding EMU: The Role of Labour Market Institutions -- 1.1. The Puzzle of EMU -- 1.2. Understanding the Crisis of EMU -- 1.3. Bringing Labour Markets Back In -- 1.4. The Argument in Brief -- 2. The Other Road to Maastricht: Currency Blocs, Wage Moderation, and Social Conflict -- 2.1. The Big Shift: Labour Unions and Central Banks -- 2.2. Constructing the Deutschmark-Bloc -- 2.3. The Maastricht Treaty and Social Pacts -- 2.4. Central Banks and Labour Unions at the Threshold of EMU -- 3. The Perils of Coordination: Wages and Labour Relations from the European Monetary System to EMU -- 3.1. National Labour Relations in a Single Currency Union -- 3.2. The Elusive Quest for International Wage Coordination -- 3.3. Central Wage Determination and Decentralized Labour Relations -- 4. Diversity without Unity: Labour Unions and Wage Setting in EMU -- 4.1. Labour Unions in a Monetary Union -- 4.2. Trade Unions in Exposed and Sheltered Sectors --

Note continued: 4.3. Wage Shadowing, Competitiveness, and Dual Europe -- 5. The Perverse Effects of Beneficial Constraints: Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance in Europe -- 5.1. Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance -- 5.2. Aggregate Demand Regimes and Different Economic Growth Models -- 5.3. Wage-Setting and Comparative Advantage -- 5.4. Wages, Real Exchange Rates, and Current Accounts -- 6. The Missing Link: Labour, Inflation, and EMU -- 6.1. Monetary Integration in Europe: New and Unanswered Questions -- 6.2. The Future of EMU: Dark Linings in Dark Clouds.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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