Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, Richard Jackman

Unemployment

Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This broad survey of unemployment is a benchmark summary of the authors position which became hugely influential. This second edition brings the analysis up to date by relating it to recent empirical developments. This book is a major source of reference for both scholars and students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1004g
• ISBN-13: 9780199279173
• ISBN-10: 0199279179
• Artikelnr.: 21578433

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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