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The last two decades have seen a reshaping of the international economy together with a radical weakening in the … explaining unemployment and the fragmentation of labour …
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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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This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...
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pt. 1. Labour market mobility and in-work transitions -- pt. 2. 'Scarring' effects of unemployment and non …
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This book examines innovative theoretical perspectives and novel labour market policy responses to Europe's changing work demands, employment careers and life courses. It presents creative ideas and recommendations for flexicurity policies at various levels and in different social and economic...
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"This authoritative Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of central concepts in labour studies, and how they can be used to analyse labour markets. Examining regional and sectoral labour markets alongside the internal labour markets of firms, it clearly lays out the current state of...
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business cycle and growth /Pedro Leão --A Keynesian model of unemployment and growth : theory /John Cornwall --A Keynesian …Is growth theory a real subject? /Franklin M. Fisher --What is endogenous growth theory? /Mark Roberts and Mark … model of unemployment and growth : an empirical test /Wendy Cornwall --The relevance of the Cambridge …
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open economy -- 5. Immigration vs. foreign investment to ease the ageing problems of an ageing open economy -- 6. Ageing …
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This unorthodox book derives and tests a simple theory of economic time series using several well-known empirical … economic puzzles, from stock market bubbles to the failure of conventional economic theory, to explain low levels of inflation … and unemployment in the US. Professor Stanley develops a new econometric methodology which demonstrates the explanatory …
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debate. This book will be of interest and relevance to academics in the fields of environmental economics, labour theory and …
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