On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:14:02 -0600, Bill Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier > it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- > "That's Germany's problem right now", he said, perhaps with good > reason. > > Is there any empirical support or refutation of this? > > > Bill
--------------------------------- See Kathleen Thelen's "Why German Employers Cannot Bring Themselves To Dismantle The German Model" in "Unions, Employers and Central Banks" edited by Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice. She has enlarged that essay into a book that was recently published iirc. Ian
