Human Resources, Employment and Development Volume 2: Concepts, Measurement and Long-Run Perspective: Proceedings of the Sixth World Congress of the International Economic Association held in Mexico City, 1980

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-7
Human Resources: Are they Worth Preserving?....Pages 8-28
Lifetime Income and Human Capital....Pages 29-90
Towards a Linear Model of Non-homogeneous Labour....Pages 91-105
Understanding Unemployment in Developed Industrial Economies....Pages 106-116
The Political Economy of Investment in Human Capital....Pages 117-146
Unemployment and Economic Development....Pages 147-166
Human Resources and Population Growth....Pages 167-180
Nutrition, Health and Education: The Economic Significance of Complementarities at Early Ages....Pages 181-197
The Whys and Wherefores of Human Resources....Pages 198-208
Work and Welfare....Pages 209-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-234
Population and the Struggle for the World Product....Pages 235-252
Innovation and the Better Use of Human Resources....Pages 253-288
Problems of Labour Utilisation in the Long Term....Pages 289-294
Human Resources and Social Policy....Pages 295-309
Raising Employment and Productivity with Producer Co-operatives....Pages 310-328
From the Human-capital Approach to a Political Economy of Human Resources....Pages 329-344
Human Resources and Technology....Pages 345-354
Manpower in the USSR: Development and Utilisation Trends....Pages 355-369
The Impact of Technical and Structural Change on the Structure and Employment of Manpower....Pages 370-394
Labour Planning and Economic Development Strategy....Pages 395-404
Front Matter....Pages 227-234
Age and Earnings in the Labour Market: Implications of the 1980s Labour Bulge....Pages 405-419
Human Resource Development and Female Labour Force Participation in Brazil....Pages 420-442
National Models as a Tool for Analysing Future Manpower Demand and Supply....Pages 443-456
Economic Factors Determining Long-term Labour Supply: A Case-study of the Polish Economy, 1950–1978....Pages 457-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-481