Unemployment in Europe : proceedings of a conference held by Confederation of European Economic Associations, Vienna, Austria /

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Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Description:xvii, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Confederation of European Economic Associations conference volumes
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4215022
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Other authors / contributors:Landesmann, Michael A.
Pichelmann, Karl.
Confederation of European Economic Associations.
ISBN:0312226306 (cloth)
Notes:Based on the proceedings of the symposium "held at the conference centre at Herstein (near Vienna) in Austria from 26 to 28 October 1995"--P. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Distribution of Wages and Unemployment across Skill Groups
  • 3. Employment, Growth and Income Inequality: Some Open Questions
  • 4. Flexibility of Working Time - A Viable Cure for Unemployment? Some Sceptical Remarks
  • 5. Technological Change, Unemployment and Recent Trends in Human Capital Formation - Impact on the German Wage Structure
  • 6. Can Hysteresis Explain the Difference between Labour Market Performance in Western Europe and the USA?
  • 7. The Crucial Importance of High Labour Force Participation: The Dutch Experience and Lessons for Europe
  • 8. Structural Employment Patterns and the Welfare-services Sector
  • 9. Projection of Regional Labour Force Developments in the EU by Age Group
  • 10. Immigration, Trade and Austrian Unemployment
  • 11. Aggregate and Structural Aspects of Employment Growth: The Case of Italy
  • 12. The Analysis of Regional Unemployment Inequality: The Case of Switzerland
  • 13. The Effects of Employment Policies on Youth in Southern Italy
  • 14. Labour Market Experiences of the Long-term Unemployed in Finland in the Early 1990s
  • 15. Restructuring by 'Firing and Retiring': The Case of Slovenia
  • 16. Employment Policies in Austria and Sweden - Two Successful Models in a Changing International Environment
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects