analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact … of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of …

This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very …. This shift has produced new difficulties, and has undermined central tenets of neoclassical macroeconomic theory (such as …, not only in many aspects of the history of economic theory, but also in fundamental issues in the theories of value …

game theory and applications. The editors focus on a select set of issues that stand high on the agenda of academic … understanding of the dilemmas posed for theory and policy. Readers are offered new empirical evidence on such thorny social problems … as, for example, unemployment, the intergenerational transmission of human capital and the response of wages to price and …

this book, Kurt Kratena studies the employment effects of revenue neutral tax shifts from labour to energy, and measures … equilibrium model only finds employment double dividend effects. The book also highlights the potentially positive economic … appraisal of the general double dividend question combined with an innovative analysis of the employment double dividend effect …

explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour …

endogenous growth theory, economic growth and unemployment, labour market economics and industrial organization …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 …

The impact of technical change on employment is investigated in this important new book which offers a critical … appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and … Employment addresses the impact of technical change on employment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. After an …