Unemployment: Theory, Policy and Structure

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Unemployment: Economic and Statistical Aspects -- A Critical Assessment of Some Recent Approaches to the Theory of Unemployment / Pissarides, Christopher A. -- A General Equilibrium View of Unemployment / Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen / Schultz, Christian -- Employment Relations and Employment Processes / Sørensen, Aage B. -- Transitions Between Labour-Market States - An Empirical Analysis Using Danish Data / Jensen, Peter -- The End of Expansion in Employment in Germany: Beginnings of an Attempt at Evaluation of Structural Unemployment as a Partial Component of Joblessness / Franz, Wolfgang -- Multiple Spells of Unemployment - The Danish Experience / Pedersen, Peder J. / Westergård-Nielsen, Niels -- Turnover and Employment Among Youth: Causes of the Particular Problems of Youth Employment / Vejrup Hansen, Per -- Short- and Long-Run Consequences of Shorter Working Hours / Andersen, Torben M. -- Deregulation, Structured Labour Markets and Unemployment / Wilkinson, Frank -- Unemployment, the Labour Queue and Positive Feedback in the Labour Market / Brüniche-Olsen, Paul -- Part II. Unemployment: Sociological, Medical and Psychological Aspects -- Unemployment and Trade Unions in Britain: the Politics of Industrial Relations in the Crisis / Hyman, Richard -- Trade Union Strategy Towards Unemployment at the Local Level / Larsson, Rune / Lund, Reinhard / Møller, Jørgen -- Youth Employment in the United States: Problem, Structure, Policy / Elmore, Richard F. -- Implementation of Danish Youth Employment Policy / Winter, Søren -- Unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany: Recent Empirical Evidence / Brinkmann, Christian -- Some Health Effects of the Closure of a Danish Shipyard a Three-Year Follow-Up Study / Iversen, Lars -- Unemployment and the Cultures of Young Women / Bech Jørgensen, Birte -- Female Unemployment and Knowledge of Self / Bloch, Charlotte -- Backmatter