Unemployment - Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market

Zusatztext 'The leading international text on this subject is Unemployment by Richard Layard! Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman.'Geoffrey Lehmann! The Australian Klappentext Written by leading experts in the field! this book provides a broad survey of unemployment. Explaining what has happened to employment levels in the industrialized countries in the 1970s and 1980s! the authors discuss why unemployment is so high and why it has fluctuated so wildly! how unemployment affects inflation! and whether full employment can ever be combined with price stability. For each issue it develops a relevant theory! followed by extensive empirical analysis! drawing on material from both Europe and America. Zusammenfassung This broad survey of unemployment will be a major source of reference for both scholars and students. It aims to provide a basis for better policy: showing how the lessons learned from experience and theory can be applied to greatly reduce the waste and misery of high unemployment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Overview; The Microfoundations: Wage Bargaining and Unions; Efficiency Wages; Wage Behaviour: The Evidence; Job Search: The Duration of Unemployment; Mismatch: The Structure of Unemployment; The Pricing and Employment Behaviour of Firms; The Macroeconomic Outcome: The Macroeconomics of Unemployment; Explaining Post-War Unemployment in OECD Countries; Policy Implications: Policies to Cut Unemployment

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• Authors: Richard Jackman, P. R. G. Layard, Richard Layard, Richard (Head of the Centre for Labour Eco Layard, Richard Jackman Layard, Richard Nickell Layard, Stephen Nickell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.1991
• EAN: 9780198284345
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828434-5
• No. of pages: 634
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)