We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...

Nach dem vieldiskutierten Bericht an den Club of Rome von 1972 wurde die Debatte um die Zukunftsaussichten unseres Planeten in mehreren Updates fortgesetzt. An beiden Berichten war der norwegische Zukunftsforscher J. Randers beteiligt während G. Maxton sich in "Die Wachstumslüge" ebenfalls mit...

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...