Unemployment Policy
Subtitle: Government Options for the Labour Market
Contributors: Dennis J. Snower (Editor); Guillermo de la Dehesa (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9780521599214
Subjects: Employment & unemployment; Labor; Economics - General; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; Business/Economics; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Labor; Business & Economics-Labor; Manpower policy--United States; Europe; Great Britain; Manpower policy
First sentence: This chapter is motivated by a simple idea that has received lamentably little attention in the literature on unemployment policy: different unemployment policies are generally based on different theories of unemployment, and our confidence in a policy should depend - at least in part - on the ability of the underlying theory to account for some prominent empirical regularities in unemployment behavior.