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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 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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Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging …, David Canning, Michael Moore, Younghwan Song -- Modeling the effects of population aging on consumption in the presence of … -- Population aging and health care spending in Japan : public- and private-sector responses / Naohiro Ogawa, Andrew Mason, Maliki …
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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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than regulate labour -- 8. Unemployment as a benefit of unemployment benefits -- 9. Why the majority may choose the wage of …
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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 …1. The rise of unemployment in Europe : a synopsis -- 2. Profits and unemployment : is there an equilibrium rate of …
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and Unemployment', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CV (2), May, 255-83 -- Truman F. Bewley (1995), 'A Depressed Labor … 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 …
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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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