Unemployment
macroeconomic performance and the labour market
- ISBN: 9780199279173
- Editorial: Oxford University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 623
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 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
