Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor … market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment … and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to social pacts, activation, active ageing/avoidance of early …