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This book presents a revisionist view of monetary policy and monetary regimes. It presents several new mechanisms, indicating that money affects long-term production. The consequent policy implications are also discussed, including: the uses of monetary policy and monetary regimes in achieving macroeconomic goals; the impact of an independent central bank; the effects of a movement from floating exchange rates to fixed exchange rates in a monetary union. In addition to the theoretical and policy discussions the book also contains a comprehensive survey of the current state of scholarship in this area. ... Read more

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This book, prepared under the auspices of the European Unemployment Program, uses a compact econometric model to identify the sources of the unemployment problem and to suggest remedies. ... Read more

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This collection of work by Lawrence Summers and colleagues Kim Clark, James Poterba, Gregory Mankiw, Julio Rotemberg, and Olivier Blanchard explores new theories of joblessness that could eventually explain why unemployment remains high despite relatively healthy economic growth. It is based on the notion that joblessness is an important, measurable, and definable concept of pervasive importance in modern economies.

Understanding Unemployment contains a number of articles that have changed the way economists think about unemployment. These examine the burden of unemployment, the extent to which normal measures understate its consequences, its relationship to supply and demand factors, and the role of unions. Substantial introductory and concluding chapters present new and original material on the crucial facts that any theory of unemployment must grapple with, and the types of theories needed to accommodate the empirical facts of today's unemployment.

Lawrence H. Summers is Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is editor of the series Tax Policy and the Economy. ... Read more

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The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period, growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%. Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990, it has increased in the MENA region. ... Read more

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Im studyng economic labour in a postgrade programme and some issues of this book are very helpfull for understand theories and models. ... Read more

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Title: Job market poised for a better '04: agencies, economists see a slow 4th quarter.(moderate growth expected)
Author: Alex Philippidis
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 6, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 40Page: 1(2)

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This report analyses the issue of employment from the perspective of people, keeping with the tradition of the centre's previous reports. This Report has been analtically criticized under the view of globalisation and economic growth in the degrading world economy. South Asia has been neither adequate nor equitable enough to reduce the region's huge backlog of about half a billion people in poverty due to inadequate policy attention to these issues. This Report presents an in-depth explication of the policy frameworks that should be accountable for poverty, illiteracy, rights practiced by women and children and accumalation of food. It reveals the exposed identity of the government of South East Asia that should explicate the strategic information that is revealed by this report. ... Read more

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This book considers the most significant current issues in this area of study within the context of models examining the relationship between trade and unemployment. Divided into three sections, the book first examines unemployment, decay and "Dutch Disease." Later sections address structural adjustment, urban unemployment, protectionism, and various models of unemployment. ... Read more

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Drawing upon a case study of a plant closing in Wisconsin and the results of national labor force surveys showing the displacement of millions of workers each year, this book examines the consequences of the rise in economic instability. Among those consequences are a productivity slowdown, increased disparities in earnings and income, and higher average unemployment. Moore assesses the extent of job loss nationwide, its costs to the individuals directly affected, and the way in which the incidence of displacement and earnings loss has shifted over the past decade, affecting groups long sheltered from labor market turbulence.

To reverse these trends, the book argues, an employment and training system that will give employers an incentive to invest in the skills of their employees is needed. Federally funded training programs have not improved the earnings ability of displaced and disadvantaged workers, and state-sponsored programs tend to exclude those most in need of assistance. Moore suggests direct employer investment in the general skills of employees as a remedy to both failings. ... Read more

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This book examines the problematic relationship between unions and the unemployed in New York City during the 1990's.Historically, trade unions in the U.S. have had an interest in the political mobilization of the jobless to expand unemployment insurance and lessen the threat of lower wages, reduced union density, and weaker bargaining positions for unions.Despite these advantages, trade unions have rarely organized the unemployed, because they represent a potential threat to the organizational control, leadership, and legitimacy of the trade unions themselves.Moreover, the interests of the unemployed conflict directly with those of the securely employed trade unionist.
The study identifiesunion responses to unemployment at local and regional levels and the responses of independent activist organizations.The research suggests that hiring hall unions produce exclusive organizing strategies that have deeper accountability to their members, but with organizing objectives that serve only the narrow interests of core members.By contrast, workplace-based unions typically engender class-oriented unions with narrow accountability to members, but with organizing objectives that extend beyond their immediate members.
(Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995; revised with a new preface) ... Read more