1. The Decline of Employment Protection and the Rise of Precarious Work
- Author:
- Anne Marie Brady
- Publication Date:
- 09-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMFUS)
- Abstract:
- By 1989, the employment landscape in the United States and Europe had changed significantly from the immediate post-Second World War decades. Between 1960 and 1973, the unemployment rate as a percentage of the total labor force averaged two percent or below in Western Europe’s big economies and 4.8 percent in the United States, but between 1990 and 1995, the average unemployment rate in the United States was 6.4 percent and between 7 and 10.7 percent in Germany, France, and the United Kindgom.1
- Topic:
- International Political Economy, Employment, and Income Inequality
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus