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Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Yoram Weiss

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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  2. Gideon Fishelson

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  3. Efficiency Wages and Unemployment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-158
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    2. Why Do Firms Monitor Workers?

      • William T. Dickens, Lawrence F. Katz, Kevin Lang, Lawrence H. Summers
      Pages 159-171

    3. Do Deferred Wages Eliminate the Need for Involuntary Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device?

      • George A. Akerlof, Lawrence F. Katz
      Pages 172-203

    4. Efficiency Wages Reconsidered: Theory and Evidence

      • Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel
      Pages 204-240

  4. Unions, Government and Unemployment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-244
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    2. Job Security and Unemployment

      • Edward P. Lazear
      Pages 245-267

    3. The Classical Unemployment Hypothesis and International Comparisons of Labour Market Behaviour

      • John Pencavel
      Pages 268-303

    4. Is Unemployment Lower if Unions Bargain Over Employment?

      • Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell
      Pages 304-322

    5. The Persistence of Unemployment in a Dynamic Insider-Outsider Model

      • Allan Drazen, Nils Gottfries
      Pages 323-335

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 337-341
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A collection of papers which analyzes and measures unemployment as a search activity, discusses efficiency wage models and which considers the impact of government and unions on employment and unemployment.

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  • Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Yoram Weiss, Gideon Fishelson

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