Summary
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A brief supplemental text for upper level undergraduate courses in comparative political economy, comparative public policy, and American political economy. The book's six chapters look in detail at the political economies of the U.S., Sweden and Germany, exploring the fundamental differences between their handling of health policy, pensions, family policy, corporate governance and fiance, and labor markets. The book's many rich and well rendered examples of the three countries' various policies helps students push past abstractions and understand what it is actually like to live under different capitalist systems.
The Labor Market
The Labor Market
THEECONOMIESOFTHEUNITEDSTATES, GERMANY, AND Sweden are among the most developed in the world. They provide broadly similar arrays of goods and services for their citizens and compete in many of the same global markets. They also provide broadly similar arrays of jobs for their citizens. However, this does not mean that the experience of being an employee in a fast-food restaurant, an autoworker, a retail clerk, or a nurse is the same across the three countries. The worlds of work in these countries vary as widely as do the worlds of health care, retirement, and child rearing.
Even when workers perform similar tasks from country to country, they do so under very different employment conditions. For instance, in Germany and Sweden ...
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