ABSTRACT
The increasing ease of international communications has raised interest in comparing policies, including labor-market policies, in different economies. 1 While the comparisons may have some inherent intellectual interest, presumably their main purposes are to instruct policy-makers in the countries involved (and perhaps in other countries too) about potentially attractive innovations that have succeeded elsewhere and that merit importing. The ultimate goal is to broaden the menu of policy choices by providing information on the successes and failures of the alternatives in different countries.
