Public Sector Shock The Impact of Policy Retrenchment in Europe

• Other Authors: Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar Publishing 2013
• Subjects: KCF; KCFM; Public sector; European Union; austerity programmes; budget cuts; wages; employment
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

After a first series of policy responses to the 2008-09 crisis aimed at sustaining domestic demand through expansionary anti-crisis packages, most European governments - starting with Greece, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania, and followed by many others - have since put in place a series of restrictive...