Unemployment

Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927917-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1004 g

This survey of unemployment, second edition, brings the analysis up to date by relating it to empirical developments.

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 m

Introduction to New Edition; Preface to First Edition; 1. Overview; THE MICROFOUNDATIONS; 2. Wage-Bargaining and Unions; 3. Efficiency Wages; 4. Wage Behaviour: the Evidence; 5. Job Search: the Duration of Unemployment; 6. Mismatch: the Structure of Unemployment; 7. The Pricing and Employment Behaviour of Firms; THE MACROECONOMIC OUTCOME; 8. The Macroeconomics of Unemployment; 9. Explaining Post-war Unemployment in OECD Countries; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; 10. Policies to Cut Unemployment; Annexes; Discussion Questions; References

Autoren/Hrsg.

Layard, Richard

Nickell, Stephen

Jackman, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Beschäftigung, Arbeitslosigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to New Edition

- Preface to First Edition

- 1: Overview

- The Microfoundations

- 2: Wage-Bargaining and Unions

- 3: Efficiency Wages

- 4: Wage Behaviour: the Evidence

- 5: Job Search: the Duration of Unemployment

- 6: Mismatch: the Structure of Unemployment

- 7: The Pricing and Employment Behaviour of Firms

- The Macroeconomic Outcome

- 8: The Macroeconomics of Unemployment

- 9: Explaining Post-war Unemployment in OECD Countries

- Policy Implications

- 10: Policies to Cut Unemployment

- Annexes

- Discussion Questions

- References

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Layard is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

Stephen Nickell is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.

Richard Jackman is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.