Surfing the Baby Boom Wave in the Netherlands

Antoon Spithoven

Journal of Economic Issues, 2008, vol. 42, issue 3, 649-672

Abstract: Mainstream economists and liberal politicians are criticizing the Third Way as it is being applied in the Netherlands. They argue that mutual consultation precludes an efficient adaptation to disturbances. The present study analyzes changes in wage and income policy in the Netherlands until 2005. It finds that wage and income policy has proven to be flexible enough to address “new” challenges in the Netherlands. The flexibility is rooted in a culture of tolerance that allows for some breaking of working rules. The latter arises from bounded socialization, that is, the imperfect transmission of information with respect to social working rules that result in similar but not identical copies of institutions.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2008.11507172

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