Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...

This paper assesses some of the main strands of the theoretical literature on unemployment and employment and shows that their interesting conclusions may not be transferable to low-income countries whose endowment and production structures are profoundly different from that of high-income...

Der Arbeitsmarkt ist ein aktuelles und auf absehbare Zeit weiterhin wichtiges Thema für die Wirtschaftspolitik und für die Forschung. Wegen der Bedeutung dieses Problems hat der 1997 gegründete Arbeitskreis Berlin-Brandenburgischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler für seinen ersten Workshop das...