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Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe
Pepper D. Culpepper
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Description for Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe
Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1D; JPQB; KCM; KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies doom many policy initiatives to failure. Higher skills benefit society as a whole, so national governments want to foster them. However, business firms often will not invest in training that makes their workers more attractive to other employers, even though they would prefer having better-skilled workers.
Culpepper sees in European training programs a challenge typical ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801440694
SKU
V9780801440694
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About Pepper D. Culpepper
Pepper D. Culpepper is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is coeditor of The German Skills Machine: Sustaining Comparative Advantage in a Global Economy.
Reviews for Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe
David Soskice and Peter Hall's agenda-setting edited volume Varieties of Capitalism appeared in 2001, and much of the work that appeared as chapters there is now beginning to appear as the first books of assistant professors. Pepper Culpepper's superb, theoretically literate, and empirically well researched comparative monograph is one of these.... Culpepper is a deeply learned and widely read scholar, ... Read more