Human Resources, Employment and Development

Human Resources and Employment in Developed Countries

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-13

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2. Manpower Policy and the Labour Market

   1. The Structure and Evolution of Canadian Manpower Policy: An Overview

      • Keith Newton, Sylvia Ostry

      Pages 16-30

   2. Economic Growth and Interindustry Labour Mobility in Japan

      • Hisao Kanamori

      Pages 31-47

   3. Human Resources and Employment in the Peoples’ Republic of Bulgaria

      • Ivan Iliev, Nicolas Naoumov

      Pages 48-54

   4. Manpower and Industrialisation in Hungary

      • János Timár, Ev́a Ehrlich

      Pages 55-73

   5. The Deployment of Human Resources for Development: The East European Experience, 1953–75

      • Michael Kaser, Rudolf Notel

      Pages 74-83

   6. Notes on the X- Efficiency Approach to Inflation, Productivity and Unemployment

      • Harvey Leibenstein

      Pages 84-96

   7. Measuring Labour Slack

      • Angus Maddison

      Pages 97-112

   8. Structural Change and Labour Market Adjustment

      • Glenn Withers, John Freebairn

      Pages 113-119

   9. The Impact of the Voluntary Non-profit Sector on Development and Employment

      • Christoph Badelt

      Pages 120-129

3. Education and Human Resource Development

   1. The Higher Education and Employment Markets in France

      • Alain Mingat, J. C. Eicher

      Pages 133-146

   2. An Overview of the Demand for Post-compulsory Education by British Men, 1955–77

      • Christopher A. Pissarides

      Pages 147-156

   3. Allocative and Redistributive Aspects of Financing Higher Education with Special Regard to Italy

      • Giorgio Stefani

      Pages 157-166

   4. Income Distribution and Labour Factor Quality: Models and Applications at a Regional Level

      • Gilberto Antonelli

      Pages 167-177

   5. Part-time Post-school Investments in Education and their Impact on Earnings Growth for Engineers

      • William N. Cooke, Morris Cobern

      Pages 178-186

   6. Non-growth Paths of Human-capital Accumulation

      • Z. M. Kubinski

      Pages 187-196

   7. Planning Manpower Education and Economic Growth

      • Alberto Quadrio-Curzio

      Pages 197-209

4. Labour Supply, Income Distribution and Demographic Change: Lifetime and Intergenerational Aspects

   1. A Life-cycle Model of Family Labour Supply

      • James Heckman

      Pages 213-230

   2. Lifetime Patterns of Labour Force Participation

      • Siv Gustafsson

      Pages 231-249