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Yoram Weiss (Professor of Economics)⁰,
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Yoram Weiss
1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiii

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Search Unemployment: Theory and Measurement
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-4
  
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2. Search, Applications and Vacancies
  
  Steven Stern
  
  Pages 5-19
3. A Stigma Theory of Unemployment Duration
  
  Elazar Berkovitch
  
  Pages 20-56
4. A Structural Model of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Effects on the Incidence and Duration of Unemployment
  
  Dale T. Mortensen
  
  Pages 57-81
5. On the Estimation of Labour Force Participation, Job Search, and Job Matching Models Using Panel Data
  
  Zvi Eckstein, Kenneth I. Wolpin
  
  Pages 82-112
6. Unemployment Behaviour: Evidence from the CPS Work Experience Survey
  
  Thomas S. Coleman
  
  Pages 113-153
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
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
Back Matter

Pages 337-341

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About this book

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

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment
Editors: Yoram Weiss, Gideon Fishelson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10688-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10688-2Published: 18 June 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 341
Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Labor Economics

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Front Matter

Search Unemployment: Theory and Measurement

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Efficiency Wages and Unemployment

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Unions, Government and Unemployment

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Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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