Combatting Unemployment

by Richard Layard, Stephen J. Nickell, Werner Eichhorst, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199609780
• ISBN13: 9780199609789
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"