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.
This book examines the main policies available to government in dealing with the problem of high unemployment. It thereby gives policy makers and acad...
In recent years, technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy issue. Throughout the industrialized world there is widespread concern that employees are insufficiently skilled. This deficiency can have serious economic consequences, reflected in excessive unemployment, meager growth, impeded competitiveness, excessive wages, insufficient innovation, and deficient product quality. This volume, from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, provides a systematic account of all the major market failures in the...
In recent years, technological change, unemployment and industrial restructuring have highlighted training and the acquisition of skills as a policy i...
German unification is about to enter its second decade, and despite massive financial transfers, the political promise of a "blooming landscape" remains a vision. This text asks what went wrong, and what the available options were - or is the East German labour market better than assumed.
German unification is about to enter its second decade, and despite massive financial transfers, the political promise of a "blooming landscape" remai...
A historically unique experiment is about to enter its second decade - German unification. Early hopes for a rapid and smooth economic transformation soon turned out to be overly optimistic. Despite massive financial transfers, the political promise of a "blooming landscape" remains a vision. Actual developments have left deep scars on the labor market, and the effects will be felt for decades to come. Was this outcome to be expected, perhaps even inevitable? What went wrong, and what were the available options? Or is the current state of Eastern German labor market in fact better than is...
A historically unique experiment is about to enter its second decade - German unification. Early hopes for a rapid and smooth economic transformation ...
