Adjustment: Origin of the European Crisis

The goal of this work is to analyze the impact on the European Union of institutional transformations to the adjustment policies of the nation states since the 1980s in the face of external shocks or internal problems. The loss of instruments of economic policy focused adjustments on the labor marke...

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Autor: Musacchio, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/36499
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/36499
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:European Union
labor market
income distribution
crisis
neoliberalism
Unión Europea
mercado de trabajo
distribución del ingreso
neoliberalismo
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Sumario:The goal of this work is to analyze the impact on the European Union of institutional transformations to the adjustment policies of the nation states since the 1980s in the face of external shocks or internal problems. The loss of instruments of economic policy focused adjustments on the labor market and social security, driving regressive income distribution, the partial dismantling of the welfare state and precarious employment.These tendencies were reinforced with the need to retain or attract investment in acontext of strong economic competition due to location, which fostered capital “friendly” policies at the expense of labor standards and income distribution. These issues have largely contributed to the combination of debt and stagnation, which are atthe root of the current crisis.