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Author: Gordon Betcherman
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780821344781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the impacts of the Asian economic crisis on the labor market, examining how various countries respondedIt identifies the labour policy reforms needed in areas of unemployment benefit, active labour market programs, support for vulnerable groups and social dialogue.
Author: Gordon Betcherman
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Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9789221122746
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9789221321019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon Betcherman
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Shimer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2010-04-12
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1400835232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLabor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles. The book focuses on the labor wedge that arises when the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure does not equal the marginal product of labor. According to competitive models of the labor market, the labor wedge should be constant and equal to the labor income tax rate. But in U.S. data, the wedge is strongly countercyclical, making it seem as if recessions are periods when workers are dissuaded from working and firms are dissuaded from hiring because of an increase in the labor income tax rate. When job searches are time consuming and wages are flexible, search frictions--the cost of a job search--act like labor adjustment costs, further exacerbating inconsistencies between the competitive model and data. The book shows that wage rigidities can reconcile the search model with the data, providing a quantitatively more accurate depiction of labor markets, consumption, and investment dynamics. Developing detailed search and matching models, Labor Markets and Business Cycles will be the main reference for those interested in the intersection of labor market dynamics and business cycle research.
Author: Agnes Soucat
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2013-04-26
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 0821395580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSub-Saharan Africa has only 12 percent of the global population, yet this region accounts for 50 percent of child deaths, more than 60 percent of maternal deaths, 85 percent of malaria cases, and close to 67 percent of people living with HIV. Sub-Saharan Africa, however, has the lowest number of health workers in the world-significantly fewer than in South Asia, which is at a comparable level of economic development. The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa uses the analytical tools of labor markets to examine the human resource crisis in health from an economic perspective. Africa's labor markets are complex, with resources coming from governments, donors, the private sector, and households. Low numbers of health workers and poor understanding of labor market dynamics are major impediments to improving health service delivery. Yet some countries in the region have developed innovative solutions with new approaches to creating a robust health workforce that can respond to the continent's health challenges. As Africa grows economically, the invaluable lessons in this book can help build tomorrow's African health systems.
Author: Morris Goldstein
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780881322613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe turmoil that has rocked Asian markets since the middle of 1997, and that is now having such deep effects on the economies in the region, is the third major currency crisis of the 1990s. This study explains how the Asian crisis arose and spread. It then outlines the corrective policy measures that could help end the crisis, and the shortcomings that have been revealed in the international financial system that require reform to reduce the chances of a recurrence.
Author: A. Bugra
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0230607187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of this commodification process.
Author: Simona Piattoni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-09-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521804776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the evolution of clientelist practices in several western European countries. Through the historical and comparative analysis of countries as diverse as Sweden and Greece, England and Spain, France and Italy, Iceland and the Netherlands, the authors study both the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of clientelism. This approach contends that clientelism is a particular mix of particularism and universalism, in which interests are aggregated at the level of the individual and his family "particularism," but in which all interests can potentially find expression and accommodation in "universalism."
