Unemployment : macroeconomic performance and the labour market /

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Author / Creator:Layard, Richard, 1934-
Edition:[2nd ed., new ed.]
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:xlv, 623 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5646271
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Other authors / contributors:Nickell, S. J.
Jackman, Richard, 1945-
ISBN:0199279160 (hbk.)
0199279179 (pbk.)
Notes:Previous ed.: 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 568-597) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to New Edition
  • Preface to First Edition
  • 1. OverviewThe Microfoundations
  • 2. Wage-Bargaining and Unions
  • 3. Efficiency Wages
  • 4. Wage Behaviour: the Evidence
  • 5. Job Search: the Duration of Unemployment
  • 6. Mismatch: the Structure of Unemployment
  • 7. The Pricing and Employment Behaviour of FirmsThe Macroeconomic Outcome
  • 8. The Macroeconomics of Unemployment
  • 9. Explaining Post-war Unemployment in OECD CountriesPolicy Implications
  • 10. Policies to Cut Unemployment
  • Annexes
  • Discussion Questions
  • References