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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on July 1, 1998. The length of the article is 1253 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Gilbert and Mikic are wrong in treating the model that advocates a tariff in the case of imperfect labor mobility and unemployment in an less developed economy as riddled with defects. Their complaint against the finding that an optimal tariff is always positive is worth considering only as far as algebraic errors in the formulation of the model is concerned. However, original conclusions do not change when this minor correction is effected.

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Title: Imperfect labor mobility and unemployment in LDCs: reply. (response to article by Gilbert and Mikic in this issue, p. 178)
Author: Amar K. Parai
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1998
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v65Issue: n1Page: p182(3)

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This digital document is an article from Social Work, published by National Association of Social Workers on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 6444 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nature of Work and Future of the Social Work Profession.(relationship between economics and social work)
Author: Michael Reisch
Publication: Social Work (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: National Association of Social Workers
Volume: 46Issue: 1Page: 9

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This digital document is an article from Florida Trend, published by Trend Magazines, Inc. on November 1, 1991. The length of the article is 501 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: One more chance for a new career. (Michael Switzer's plan to extend benefits to retrain unemployed workers)
Author: John Koenig
Publication: Florida Trend (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1991
Publisher: Trend Magazines, Inc.
Volume: v34Issue: n7Page: p11(1)

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This digital document is an article from Supervision, published by National Research Bureau on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1925 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Money isn't the answer this time.
Author: Larry E. Cole
Publication: Supervision (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: National Research Bureau
Volume: 61Issue: 11Page: 12

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on May 13, 2002. The length of the article is 419 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Tight labor markets are just around the corner again.(Brief Article)
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 13, 2002
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 19Page: 9(1)

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This digital document is an article from National Institute Economic Review, published by National Institute of Economic and Social Research on May 1, 1993. The length of the article is 21867 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: There are about 3 million unemployed people in the UK reflecting a vast waste of human resources and its consequent social problems. Unemployment can be stemmed through narrow and broad approaches. The narrow approach calls for retraining of workers, assistance in looking for employment, and providing temporary work in the public sector, among others. This results in reduced unemployment by a few hundred thousand each year. The broad approach requires the state to make the economy more efficient and competitive to create more jobs. Improving the standards of secondary and vocational training should be the priority followed by government interventions in industry.

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Title: Two routes to full employment. (Commentary)
Author: Andrew Britton
Publication: National Institute Economic Review (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1993
Publisher: National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Issue: n144Page: p5(7)

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This digital document is an article from Hawaii Business, published by Hawaii Business Publishing Co. on December 1, 1989. The length of the article is 16413 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Belaboring the point. (labor shortage in Hawaii)
Author: Susan Hooper
Publication: Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1989
Publisher: Hawaii Business Publishing Co.
Volume: v35Issue: n6Page: p68(5)

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on February 2, 2004. The length of the article is 508 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: County reports job gains in December.(Issues@Work)(Westchester County)
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 2, 2004
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 43Issue: 5Page: 4(1)

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Unemployment is currently the major economic concern in developed countries. This book provides a thorough analysis of the theoretical and empirical aspects of the economics of unemployment in developed countries. It emphasizes the multicausal nature of unemployment and offers a variety of approaches for coping with the problem. Contents: Unemployment: Costs and Measurement; Stocks, Flows, Duration and the Incidence of Unemployment; Search, Unemployment and Unfilled Vacancies; Macroeconomics of Unemployment: The Classical Approach; Macroeconomics of Unemployment: The Non-Market Clearing Approach; Non-Natural Unemployment: The Empirical Evidence; The Natural Rate of Unemployment:The Supply Side; The Natural Rate of Unemployment: The Demand Side; Unemployment: Policy and Prospects; BibliographyàR ... Read more

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This second volume from the Swedish Trade Union Research Institute looks at recent research on labor market policies. The question of the extent of government intervention is examined between the two extremes of the effects of unrestricted and unhampered markets on the one hand, and the old Keynesian view of benevolent governments on the other. Job creation policies and labor market programs both in Europe and the United States are reviewed and cost-benefit rules for job-training programs are proposed. Also discussed are general issues concerning unemployment insurance and incentives. ... Read more

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Despite the dominance of unemployment in the historiography of interwar Britain, there is as yet no comprehensive single volume study of government reactions to the problem over the entire period down to 1939. British Unemployment 1919-1939 aims to fill that gap.W.R. Garside draws upon an extensive range of primary and secondary sources to analyze official ameliorative policy toward unemployment and contemporary reactions to such intervention.He assesses the nature and scale of interwar unemployment assistance.Careful study is also made of the impact of unemployment on related areas of economic concerns such as monetary and fiscal policy, industrial change, overseas trade, colonial development, labor supply and the impact of collective bargaining.Comprehensive, informative and clearly written, this book is the fullest account of policy responses to unemployment in the interwar period.It will be invaluable to specialists in recent British economic history and public policy, as well as an essential reference work for students coming to the subject for the first time. ... Read more

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The Birth of the Welfare State
Excerpted from a book review by Robert Whaples in the Independent Review (Fall 2001)

Given the colossal size of the federal government in the United States and its pervasive influence on our economic lives, it is surprising that the growth of government isn't the subject of most history books written about the twentieth century. Unfortunately, the list of good books on the subject is surprisingly short. Fortunately, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor have written a book that can be added to that short list. Indeed, their book, with its rigorous analysis of both markets and politics, is a model for others to follow.

Fishback and Kantor's exhaustive research provides new insights into why almost all states adopted workers' compensation laws between 1910 and 1921, even though related reform proposals were stillborn. [They] examine the timing of adoption across states and conclude that "progressive" politicians played only a marginal role. The strength of employer and worker interest groups was crucial. The occurrence of a crisis in the old liability system was also extremely important.

Probably the greatest shortcoming of this book is a failure to go back one more step to explain the origins of this crisis in greater detail. Whatever the reasons, the origin of the workers' compensation system, like the growth of government during much of the rest of the twentieth century, hinged crucially on a crisis.

Ultimately, the, Fishback and Kantor's painstaking analysis gives a clear picture of the operation of the American market and political system in an era when the logic of the welfare state was still generally rejected and when other programs that eventually became part of the welfare state (old-age pensions, unemployment insurance and subsidies, and sickness insurance) were not politically viable. ... Read more

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The substantial political changes in Eastern Europe and Russia since 1989 have been accompanied by the attempted transfer, imposition, and imitation of labor relations practices from other market economies. The authors address the extent to which these transferred labor-relations institutions are likely to take root and offer a comparative analysis of changing labor relations at national level in a range of countries. ... Read more

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Hardbound. Panel Data and Structural Labour Market Models is the latest volume in a series of four, reporting on the original work of an international group of scholars with research interests in the performance of the labour markets that condition the dynamic labour market experiences of individual workers.

The book contains papers focusing on theoretical and empirical modelling of the labour market covering both wage equilibrium models and models for labour market transition. Contributions range from the theoretical or econometric through empirical structural methods and exploratory data analysis based on employer and employee level data.

Academic libraries, labour economists, labour and industrial relations research institutes and statistical agencies will find this a particularly useful piece of work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The American Prospect, published by The American Prospect, Inc. on September 1, 1997. The length of the article is 2581 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The unemployment rate in 1996, which was at 5.4%, can easily drop to 4% in the next few years. However, national leaders should bear in mind that this rate still leaves millions of Americans wanting to earn a decent living. In order to achieve full employment, the Federal Reserve should increase real wages and avoid increasing interest rates. The government should also implement the public jobs initiative, which is modeled after the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program used during the Great Depression, to boost employment of workers.

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Title: The end of unemployment?
Author: Patrick William Lester
Publication: The American Prospect (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1997
Publisher: The American Prospect, Inc.
Issue: n34Page: p71(4)

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This collection of papers marks the development of empirical application of the search approach to labor economics--an approach which arose as a theoretical development of the 1960s and led to numerous insights in the 1970s.The search approach naturally incorporates uncertainty in the economic model, making up some of the early work in what is now called "the economics of information."Included are econometric issues such as estimation and specification of search models for wages and unemployment duration, continuous time models of turnover, and identification of structural parameters. Applications to policy questions including Unemployment Insurance and wage subsidy programs are given, and data collection issues are discussed within the search framework. ... Read more