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Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment

  • Yoram Weiss
  • Gideon Fishelson
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. 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

  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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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

employment job security labor market labour market Matching unemployment unions

Editors and affiliations

  • Yoram Weiss
    • 1
  • Gideon Fishelson
    • 1
  1. 1.Tel-Aviv UniversityIsrael

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