Chapter 5 The “Storm before the Calm”: Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Standort Deutschland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction ix
4. Chapter 1 Calvinism and Democracy: The Case of the Dutch Republic (1555-1787) 1
5. Chapter 2 Liberalization and Democratization in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany in Comparative Perspective 34
6. Chapter 3 Germany on the Global Stage: The U.S.-German Relationship after Unification 51
7. Chapter 4 The Politics of Adapting Organized Capitalism: United Germany, the New Europe, and Globalization 77
8. Chapter 5 The “Storm before the Calm”: Labor Markets, Unemployment, and Standort Deutschland 95
9. Chapter 6 The Bundesrat, Interest Groups, and Gridlock: German Federalism at the End of the Twentieth Century 121
10. Chapter 7 Fahrvergnügen on the Datenbahn: Germany Confronts the Information Age 137
11. Chapter 8 Engineered Like No Other: German Society and the Automobile 155
12. Chapter 9 Globalization, Gender, and the German Welfare State: The Maldistributive Consequences of Retrenchment 175
13. Chapter 10 Grace? Under Pressure? The Goldhagen Controversy after Two Years 212
14. List of Contributors 227
15. Index 229