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Recent Labour Market Reforms: A Comparison of the 'Kiwi' and 'Polder' Models

Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

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Title Recent Labour Market Reforms: A Comparison of the 'Kiwi' and 'Polder' Models
 
Creator Gorter, Cees
Poot, Jacques
 
Subject unemployment, Netherlands, labour market policy, labour market deregulation
 
Description Unemployment remains a major economic and social problem in many developed economies. This paper is concerned with the impact of labour market reform as a means of combatting unemployment and of enhancing competitive wage determination. The paper focuses specifically on The Netherlands and New Zealand, two small open economies in which unemployment rates reduced to close to half of their respective post-1980 peaks, following reforms. The labour market policies that contributed to these outcomes are referred to as the 'Polder' model and the 'Kiwi' model respectively. Despite some similarities, there are significant differences between these models. These are highlighted in the paper. It is argued that the effects of deregulation are hard to separate out from other influences on the labour market. The success of the deregulation policies is easily overstated by a selective use of labour market indicators, or by making trough to peak comparisons along the business cycle.
 
Publisher Victoria University of Wellington
 
Date 1998-11-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/998
10.26686/lew.v0i0.998
 
Source Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand; 1998: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand
2463-2600
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/998/809