Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Background: Unemployment and Fragility; Prevailing Approaches to Employment Generation; New Thinking Regarding Employment Generation in Fragile Environments; Agriculture Value Chain Development: An Underexploited...

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors and Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Rationale and Relevance; Figure O.1 Composition of the Working-Age Population by Employment Status, MENA and Other Regions, 2010; Figures; Figure O.2 Percentage of Firms that Identify Inadequately...

This widely reviewed and highly successful book examines the job market of tomorrow. Aronowitz and DiFazio take you behind the headlines to challenge the idea that a high-tech economy will provide high-paying jobs for all who want them. Instead, they demonstrate that we're more likely to see...

The analysis in this report confirms the findings of previous studies that trade liberalization improves aggregate welfare and is in the long run associated with higher employment and wages. The analysis addresses a major gap in the literature, which has heretofore provided limited evidence...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Executive summary -- 1 New clouds on the Eurozone employment horizon -- 2 The policy response so far: Rationale and impact -- 3 Way forward -- 4 Concluding remarks: no recovery possible without concerted action --...

Intro -- Economics of Employment and Unemployment -- Contents -- Preface -- Poverty, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Unemployed and the Working Poor -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Labour Market and New Poverty -- Data -- A Note on Methodology -- Marginalization on the Labour Market,...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- 1 Overview -- Rationale for this report -- Road map -- Key insights -- Three dimensions of the policy response -- Implications for the COVID-19 crisis -- Notes -- References --...

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti