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In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...
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"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...
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In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...
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This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...
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The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of … the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …
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unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift from involuntary to 'natural rate' conceptions of unemployment since … unemployment and the Phillips curve ; The Phillips curve and shifting views on unemployment ; The troublesome NAIRU: the hoax that …
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This book offers a long overdue and refreshing Keynesian approach to the rise of European unemployment. It critically …1. The rise of unemployment in Europe : a synopsis -- 2. Profits and unemployment : is there an equilibrium rate of … unemployment in the long run? -- 3. The NAIRU theory, the NAIRU story and Keynesian approaches -- 4. Explaining the rise in …
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perspective on psychology and economics, social norms and macroeconomics, the nature of unemployment, unemployment and inflation …Andrew E. Clark and Andrew J. Oswald (1994), 'Unhappiness and Unemployment', Economic Journal, 104 (424), May, 648 … and Unemployment', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CV (2), May, 255-83 -- Truman F. Bewley (1995), 'A Depressed Labor …
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explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour …
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The sectoral composition of economies is fundamental to the understanding of growth, unemployment and the relative … consequences of outsourcing and downsizing * unemployment and catching-up * the relationship between growth and unemployment in a … dual labour market * the relative stagnancy of Europe versus the USA in terms of productivity levels and unemployment …
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