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appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and …
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The group of contributors in this book come from academia and international organizations in Europe and the USA. They focus on trade unions, which affect real-wage flexibility and the provision of training to workers. They also concentrate on employment protection legislation, which discourages...
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In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market
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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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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 … analyses how employment levels and real wages are affected by international trade. Popular trade theory disregards the impact …
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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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unemployment in the long run? -- 3. The NAIRU theory, the NAIRU story and Keynesian approaches -- 4. Explaining the rise in …This book offers a long overdue and refreshing Keynesian approach to the rise of European unemployment. It critically … discusses the NAIRU theory and presents econometric evidence to assess the relative importance of capital investment and labor …
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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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