Unemployment Crisis

Author : Brian K. MacLean,Lars Osberg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773566064

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Unemployment Crisis by Brian K. MacLean,Lars Osberg Pdf

Arguing that the consequences of the unemployment crisis could have been avoided by better government policies, particularly less restrictive monetary control, the contributors examine the effect of the zero-inflation policy adopted by the Bank of Canada and the role of unemployment insurance on the unemployment crisis of recent years. Their analysis includes discussion of various facets of unemployment in France, Germany, and Japan for comparison. Contents Introduction - Brian K. MacLean and Lars Osberg Digging a Hole or Laying the Foundation? The Objectives of Macroeconomic Policy in Canada - Lars Osberg The Unbearable Lightness of Zero-Inflation Optimism - Pierre Fortin (UQAM) Real Interest Rates and Unemployment - John Smithin (York) Using the NAIRU as a Basis for Macroeconomic Policy: An Evaluation - Mark Setterfield (Trinity College) Does Unemployment Insurance Increase Unemployment? - Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie) Why Do We Know So Little About Unemployment Determination and UI Effects? - Tony Myatt (UNB) Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment - Revisited - Lars Osberg The Rise of Unemployment in Ontario - Andrew Sharpe (Centre for the Study of Living Standards) Unemployment among Canada's Aboriginal Peoples - Helmar Drost (York) Unemployment Persistence in France and Germany - Dominique Gross (Simon Fraser) Low Unemployment in Japan: The Product of Socio-economic Coherence - Patrice de Broucker (Statistics Canada) A Macroeconomic Policy Package for the 1990s - Mike McCracken (Informetrica). Both critical of past performance and optimistic about future possibilities, The Unemployment Crisis makes a timely and valuable addition to current literature on economic policy.

Author : Tamar Mayer,Sujata Moorti,Jamie K. McCallum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351247634

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The Crisis of Global Youth Unemployment by Tamar Mayer,Sujata Moorti,Jamie K. McCallum Pdf

Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed adults. This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape. This concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not consistent across the world, it is a coherent problem in the global political economy. This book examines this crisis of youth unemployment, drawing on international case studies. It is organized around four key dimensions of the crisis: precarity, flexibility, migration, and policy responses. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the chapters offer a dynamic portrait of unemployment and how this is being challenged through new modes of resistance. This book provides cross-national comparisons, both ethnographic and quantitative, to explore the contours of this laborscape on the global, national, and local scales. Throughout these varied case studies is a common narrative from young workers, families, students, volunteers, and activists facing a new and growing problem. This book will be an imperative resource for students and researchers looking at the sociology of globalization, global political economy, labor markets, and economic geography.

Author : Gianluigi Coppola,Niall O'Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317484578

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Youth and the Crisis by Gianluigi Coppola,Niall O'Higgins Pdf

The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to the context, choices and experiences of young people, the consequences of which resonate throughout their lives. The focus of the contributions to this volume is on issues which, whilst undoubtedly important, have thus far received less attention than they arguably deserve. The first part of the book is concerned with issues related to education and training, covering matters such as the role of monopsony in training, the consequences of over-education, and the quality of educational institutions from primary to tertiary. The second part is primarily concerned with the long-term consequences of short-term choices and experiences including contributions on health-related choices, health consequences later in life, factors affecting the home-leaving decision, as well as an analysis of the increasing intergenerational transmission of inequality; a trend which accelerated during the recession. The last part of the book deals with issues related to youth unemployment and NEET – the direct consequence of the recession. This book contains a number of innovative analyses reporting significant findings that contrast with standard models. Some of the more interesting results directly contradict conventional wisdom on a number of topics from the importance of monopsony in training markets to the importance of transitory income changes on consumption of addictive goods. This book is suitable for those who study labor economics, political economy as well as employment and unemployment.

Author : Richard Layard,S. J. Nickell,Richard Jackman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003472367

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The Unemployment Crisis by Richard Layard,S. J. Nickell,Richard Jackman Pdf

This is a fully revised and updated version of the author's undergraduate textbook on unemployment, previously titled "Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market". The authors question the inevitability of present levels of unemployment in the Western world.

Author : Christina G. Villegas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216169581

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The Youth Unemployment Crisis by Christina G. Villegas Pdf

Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis. The Youth Unemployment Crisis: A Reference Handbook examines the recent phenomenon in the United States wherein young workers ages 16 to 24 are unemployed or disconnected from the labor force at disproportionate rates. It describes in detail what led to the crisis, who it affects, and what can be and is being done about it. The book opens with a chapter that addresses the nature and scope of the crisis, which is followed by a discussion of the inherent problems, controversies, and possible solutions. It includes essays from a diverse range of contributors, providing useful perspectives to round out the author's expertise, as well as a collection of data and documents; an overview of important people, organizations, and resources relating to the crisis; a chronology listing important events in the youth unemployment timeline; and a glossary of key terms.

Author : Michael Carlberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642280184

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Unemployment and Inflation in Economic Crises by Michael Carlberg Pdf

This book studies unemployment and inflation in economic crises, first considering the scenario of a demand shock in Europe. In that case, monetary and fiscal interaction would cause widespread oscillations in European unemployment and European inflation. And what is more, there would be equally far-reaching fluctuations in the European money supply and European government purchases. These monetary and fiscal interactions would have no effects on the American economy. Second, it examines the scenario of a supply shock in Europe, in which monetary and fiscal interactions would have no effects on European unemployment or European inflation; there would also be an explosion of European government purchases and an implosion of the European money supply. Monetary and fiscal interactions would produce uniform oscillations in American unemployment and American inflation. Lastly, we would also see an implosion of both the American money supply and American government purchases.

Author : P. Vogel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137375940

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Generation Jobless? by P. Vogel Pdf

Offering guidance on the opportunities and threats for future generations, and featuring interviews with business leaders, this book provides a constructive look at change. It directs the youth to become job creators, not job seekers, and to approach the corporate and political worlds with an entrepreneurial mind-set.

Author : Mr.Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo,Davide Furceri,Mr.Dominique M. Guillaume
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781463938420

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Crises, Labor Market Policy, and Unemployment by Mr.Lorenzo E. Bernal-Verdugo,Davide Furceri,Mr.Dominique M. Guillaume Pdf

Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of financial crises is less pronounced but more persistent in countries with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a positive impact on unemployment, albeit only in the medium term.

Author : Hearing Panel on "Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis.",Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Toronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Canada
ISBN : CORNELL:31924002778870

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Canada's Unemployed by Hearing Panel on "Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis.",Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Toronto Pdf

Author : Sidney Weintraub
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015003540385

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Capitalism's Inflation and Unemployment Crisis by Sidney Weintraub Pdf

Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521643945

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The Unemployment Crisis in Australia by Stephen Bell Pdf

Since the 1970s the average level of unemployment in Australia has risen each decade. This has imposed huge economic, social and human costs, making unemployment one of the most pressing problems confronting Australia. Governments, however, seem powerless in the face of this problem. Drawing on the expertise of some of Australia's leading economists, this book, first published in 2000, argues that the currently fashionable approaches of wage cuts and further steps towards labour market flexibility will not solve the unemployment problem. In reality, unemployment and rising inequality are symptoms of the growing failure of contemporary labour markets to distribute jobs and incomes effectively. The contributors argue that the main solution to this problem is not wage cuts but jobs growth. This important book points to a way beyond the current policy malaise and offers detailed solutions to unemployment.

Author : Richard B. Freeman,Harry J. Holzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226261829

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The Black Youth Employment Crisis by Richard B. Freeman,Harry J. Holzer Pdf

In recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels. The papers in this volume, drawing on the results of a groundbreaking survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyze the history, causes, and features of this crisis. The findings they report and conclusions they reach revise accepted explanations of black youth unemployment. The contributors identify primary determinants on both the demand and supply sides of the market and provide new information on important aspects of the problem, such as drug use, crime, economic incentives, and attitudes among the unemployed. Their studies reveal that, contrary to popular assumptions, no single factor is the predominant cause of black youth employment problems. They show, among other significant factors, that where female employment is high, black youth employment is low; that even in areas where there are many jobs, black youths get relatively few of them; that the perceived risks and rewards of crime affect decisions to work or to engage in illegal activity; and that churchgoing and aspirations affect the success of black youths in finding employment. Altogether, these papers illuminate a broad range of economic and social factors which must be understood by policymakers before the black youth employment crisis can be successfully addressed.

Author : Kieran Anthony Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Ireland
ISBN : CORNELL:31924050064074

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The Unemployment Crisis by Kieran Anthony Kennedy Pdf

Author : Lorie Tarshis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Banks and banking, International
ISBN : 1459326679

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World Economy in Crisis by Lorie Tarshis Pdf

Author : Alan Gordon
Publisher : Helm
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038430182

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The Crisis of Unemployment by Alan Gordon Pdf

A study of the problem of unemployment, its political context, causes and possible solutions. The work includes personal accounts by unemployed people and assesses the choices available to them.