Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes by chapter; FIGURES; TABLES; BOXES; 1. Overview of employment trends and projections; Main findings; Introduction; A. Labour market performance and projections; Figure 1.1 Projected working-age population, total employment and employment rate,...

This volume examines global cases of environmental sustainability and economics in the context of nations from multi-disciplinary perspectives. This book analyses the problems faced globally as economies try to build a sustainable future in the aftermath of the 'Great Recession', and the recent...

Intro -- FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE GLOBAL RECESSION -- FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE GLOBAL RECESSION -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 GLOBAL RECESSION: JUST A GLITCH OR IS IT HERE TO STAY? -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Current Economic...

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, it is hard to find any macroeconomic policy report that does not include some reference to financial stability or systemic risk and the resulting need for "macroprudential policies." While there is a large and growing literature on macroprudential...

Crafting an engrossing journey from the Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's Middle East, Crude Volatility shows how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Robert McNally explains how oil became so central to our world and why...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Labour market fluctuations in GIPS – shocks vs adjustments -- Some surprising facts aboutworking time accounts and thebusiness cycle in Germany -- European labor market integration: what the experts think -- New job matches and their...

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology of Events -- The Great Depression and the New Deal: An Overview -- A Decade of Depression, 1929-1941: Theories of Cause and Cure -- America's Struggle Against the Depression, 1929- 1940: From Hoover to Roosevelt and...