Author : Simon M. Burgess
Publisher : Centre for Economic Policy Research
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Manpower policy
ISBN : 1898128898
Examines the main factors influencing unemployment at both an aggregate level and at an individual level and assesses the role of policies to bring unemployment down.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 1986
Category :
ISBN : 9780262560375
Author : Stephen Machin
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226261867
This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.
Author : Mr.Jeffrey R. Franks
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451852576
Spain has the most serious and persistent unemployment problem in Europe, with an unemployment rate that reached 24.6 percent in early 1994. This paper explores the characteristics of this unemployment problem, its causes, and provides a brief discussion of recent labor market reform measures and their likely Impact. A demographic shift in recent years has produced a large rise in female labor force participation and a decrease in agricultural jobs to which the economy has been unable to adjust. The effects of generous unemployment benefits and the large underground economy may explain 6–12 percentage points of the resulting unemployment, but the remainder must be explained by failures and rigidities in the labor market. The paper presents econometric evidence that unemployment displays hysteresis, and that wages are not responsive to changes in the unemployment rate. This evidence supports the claim that insider-outsider factors and rigidities in the legal structure of the labor market are responsible for much of the high unemployment rate. Recent reforms have improved the functioning of the labor market, but they are unlikely to be sufficient to reduce unemployment to single digit rates without further action.
Author : Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2006-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790816792
This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries to a market economy. The topics analysed include: the structure of the shocks affecting employment (regional, industrial, national), the relationships between labour market efficiency and the regional distribution of unemployment, wage flexibility in EU member countries or in their regions and the role of active labour market policies in affecting the regional distribution of employment and unemployment.
Author : Paul J.J. Welfens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642569137
The creation of the European Central Bank and the Euro have brought new challenges to EU integration and economic policy. This book looks into issues of monetary and factor market policies. The analysis presents new theoretical and empirical research on the current decline of the Euro. Issues regarding exchange rate policies and international economic relations are also addressed.
Author : Birgit Bednar-Friedl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319233246
This book addresses three big economic challenges from a dynamic perspective: European integration, economic growth, and global climate change. In the light of the recent crises of the European Union (EU), the first part of the book deals with challenges to the real, monetary and fiscal integration of the EU and required institutional adjustments. The second part of the book addresses fundamental challenges of advanced market economies like economic growth and changes of technologies. The final part focuses on the global challenge of climate change from an economic perspective and discusses policy strategies for a successful mitigation of climate change.
Author : Horst Entorf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642589197
The peristence of European unemployment stands in striking contrast to the cyclical pattern of unemployment in the US. Many people attribute the rise in European unemployment to increased imbalances between the pattern of labour demand and supply - in other words, to greater mismatch, but existing mismatch indicators do not support this view. However, the obvious inference is not legitimate because the evidence is based on trended data, and thus gives rise to spurious statistical results. To get around the problem, the author uses the dynamic flow approach to structural unemployment and disaggregated data. The reader will find new results on "non-spurious" mismatch tendencies, occupational reallocation, the matching of apprentices, and the importance of matching and mobility for wage differentials.
Author : T. Mickiewicz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2005-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230504345
Fifteen years ago, twenty-seven countries in Europe and Central Asia embarked on their economic transition paths. For some, the outcome was a considerable success. Several others are still struggling to shed the inheritance of the past and to correct more recent policy mistakes. Why were post-Communist recessions so long in some countries and growth disappointing? Why was fiscal performance so different? Was democracy a factor, which facilitated reforms or rather slowed them down? This book discusses these questions in the context of new empirical evidence, including a critical examination of the main themes in the economics of transition literature.
