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This study hypothesizes that the permanent employment system in Japan declined during the country's economic downturn in the 1990's. Contrary to expectation, the study finds that employment duration did not decrease, but increased especially for older workers in larger firms. ... Read more

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This book provides an accessible, balanced account of the insider-outsider theory of labor market activity. It focuses on how "insiders" (incumbent employees whose jobs are protected by various labor turnover costs) get market power, what they do with that power, and how their activities affect the "outsiders" (who are either unemployed or work in the informal sector). The book examines the effects of insiders' activities on wages, employment, and unemployment; discusses the associated policy implications; and relates the insider-outsider theory to other theories of labor market activity.

The central part of the book consists of a series of previously published articles that have been edited to convey a single coherent account of the insider-outsider theory. Chapters are preceded by overviews summarizing the main ideas and relating them to the book's underlying theme.

Assar Lindbeck is Professor of International Economics and Director of the Institute of International Economics at the University of Stockholm. Dennis J. Snower is Professor of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London. ... Read more

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The problems and issues of unemployment are given comprehensive coverage through discussions of measurement, theory and policy which are backed up with empirical evidence drawn from postwar experience in the United States and the United Kingdom. ... Read more

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Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to personal development and organizational learning. It approaches boundaryless careers as a new employment principle for a new organizational era. ... Read more

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This book describes the beginning and development of unemployment reform until the New Deal. As a consequence of large scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be understood to be caused by a character defect, but had to be ascribed to societal forces. It became clear to the concerned that traditional remedial measures could not adequately cope with the problem. By the time of the entry of the United States into World War I reformist thinking had devised the major instruments that were later employed in dealing with unemployment. After the war and during most of the 1920s these instruments underwent thorough examination and refinement, and the early years of the Great Depression saw their tentative use. At the eve of the New Deal a well reasoned and experimentally tried group of social instruments was available. The book essentially refutes a social control explanation for this process and stresses the progressive motivation of the reformers involved. ... Read more

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By arguing that expansion of trade between developed and developing counries is the main cause of rising economic inequality in the USA and of chronic unemployment in Europe, this work explains how these problems could be tackled without raising barriers to trade or jeopardizing the progress of the Third World. ... Read more

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This book condemns neglect of macroeconomic analysis in designing Full-Employment policies.The money value of total domestic production rather than the price level should be the objective of a combined fiscal-monetary policy emphasizing low interest rates rather than low tax rates.Full Employment without unacceptable inflation or poverty needs radical reforms, such as labor-capital partnerships, low real wage rates offset by a universal tax-free social benefit, abolition of national insurance contributions, and highly progressive taxation of income and wealth for budget surpluses to redeem national debt.Free international movements of capital funds impede independent national reforms. ... Read more

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This book examines the main policies available to government in dealing with the problem of high unemployment. It thereby gives policy makers and academics a convenient basis for making policy decisions in this area. The book attempts to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a wide range of policy options including demand management versus supply-side policy, subsidizing employment and training, restructuring labor market regulations, and reforming the welfare state. It also investigates the political process whereby unemployment policy decisions are made. ... Read more

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This book examines the role of job proximity on neighborhood employment rates and the propensity of residents to work close to their own neighborhoods.Employment rates in many older and particularly minority neighborhoods rose significantly from 1970 to 1990. The spatial concentration of unemployment and poverty precipitates a number of place-based policies, including residential dispersal, reverse commuting programs, and urban economic development.The author has developed a model to estimate the effects of jobs located within a neighborhood on the local unemployment rate, incorporating measures of skills match between nearby jobs and neighborhood residents, and controling for the number of competing workers in the surrounding area.
Job proximity, however, is not the only cause of urban unemployment problems. Other contributing factorsexamined include spatial mismatch, employment discrimination, skills mismatch, and the role of social networks.The study finds that although job proximity affects neighborhood unemployment rates, the effects are modest and the skill levels of such jobs are important.African Americans, after controlling for skills match, job proximity, and other factors, are found to suffer from higher unemployment and lower levels of employment at neighborhood jobs than whites and Hispanics. ... Read more

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"Urban Illusions is the best first-hand account I know of the struggle to solve the employment problem in American cities. Mike Bernick combines a knowledge of the issues as seen from Washington with actual experience leading anti-poverty programs at the local level, a rare combination. He writes extremely well, and he makes shrewd suggestions for where employment policy should go from here. Anybody interested in American social policy will find this book invaluable." Lawrence M. Mead Author of Beyond Entitlement ... Read more

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Leading scholars from across Europe discuss the question of unemployment in Europe, dealing with the theoretical and empirical evidence and assessing models of economic policymaking in this era of globalization. The relationships between unemployment, inequality and growth are discussed. East, Central and Western Europe are all covered. ... Read more