Combatting unemployment

Author(s)

• Layard, P. R. G. (P. Richard G.)
• Nickell, S. J.
• Eichhorst, Werner
• Zimmermann, Klaus F.

Bibliographic Information

Combatting unemployment

Richard Layard and Stephen J. Nickell ; edited by Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann

（IZA prize in labor economics series）

Oxford University Press, 2011

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-241) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Why is unemployment higher in some countries than others? Why does it fluctuate between decades? Why are some people at greater risk than others? Layard and Nickell have worked on these issues for thirty years. Their famous model, first published in 1986, is now used throughout the world. It asserts that unemployment must be high enough to reduce the real wages for which workers settle to the level justified by productivity. So what affects 'wage push'? The authors showed early on that the key factors affecting 'wage push' are how unemployed workers are treated and how wages are negotiated. If unemployed people get benefits without being required to accept jobs, vacancies go unfilled and mass unemployment results. The solution is welfare-to-work policies like those now introduced in most parts of the world. The authors have proposed these policies for the last twenty-five years in a series of key articles reproduced in this book. Their original analysis explains the subsequent movement of unemployment over the last two decades. They conclude the book with a new chapter on what should be done in the recession: no-one, they say, should be given unemployment benefit beyond a year, after which they should be offered work.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by the Editors: A New Understanding of Labor Market Institutions- Layard and Nickell on Labor Economics and Policy Making
• 1. The Labor Market
• 2. Why Does Unemployment Persist?
• 3. Combatting Unemployment: Is Flexibility Enough?
• 4. Labor Market Institutions and Economic Performance
• 5. Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labor Market
• 6. Policies For Full Employment
• 7. A Final Note: Unemployment and the Current Recession

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Details

• NCID: BB05732743
• ISBN:
  • 9780199609789
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 253 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 331.137
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Unemployment
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04262407