Employment Regulation, State Intervention and the Economic Performance of European Ports

Peter Turnbull and Syd Weston

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1992, vol. 16, issue 4, 385-404

Abstract: Consistent with government policy in other sectors of the economy, employment arrangements in Britain's ports have recently been deregulated (1989) and the remaining public sector por ts privatized (1991 onwards), but a comparison with state policies in other European countries suggests that current British policy is misdirected. Deregulation and privatization have failed to address, and indeed have exacerbated, the underlying structural problems of Britain's ports, in contrast to the major European ports where effective (joint) regulation of employment combined with state direction and subsidization of port development gives European ports a clear competitive advantage. Copyright 1992 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 1992
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