Estudio donde se examinan las razones para la gran persistencia e incremento del desempleo en España a partir de los primeros años de la década de los setenta, centrándose particularmente en la flexibilidad como principal razón para la ineficacia del mercado laboral.

The emerging Finnish Model of social labour markets is likely to be a source of growing international interest in the 1990s. This book examines Finland's reputation for economic dynamism and social welfare in the face of the challenges raised by structural adjustment.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between labor market flexibility and unemployment outcomes. Using a panel of 97 countries from 1985 to 2008, the results of the paper suggest that improvements in labor market flexibility have a statistically and significant negative impact on unemployment outcomes (over unemployment, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment). Among the different labor market flexibility indicators analyzed, hiring and firing regulations and hiring costs are found to have the strongest effect.

Reviews the arguments and evidence on labour flexibility and examines the special measures adopted to check the growth of unemployment until supply-side measures could take effect. The book considers several alternative strategies designed to combine labour flexibility and income security.

Austro-Keynesianism (based on an expansionary fiscal policy, a strong currency policy and an incomes policy) can be seen as an explanation for Austria's success in combining low unemployment with moderate inflation, social consensus and informal tripartite co-operation in most fields.