Unemployment: Macro and Micro-Economic Explanations

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Protectionist Pressures, Imports and Employment in the United States....Pages 5-18
Keynesian and Classical Unemployment in an Open Economy....Pages 19-38
The Effects of Tariffs and Real Wages on Employment in a Barro-Grossman Model of an Open Economy....Pages 39-55
Inventory Dynamics in a Simple Disequilibrium Macroeconomic Model....Pages 56-70
The Distribution of Excess Demand for Labor and the Phillips Curve....Pages 71-87
The International Element in the Phillips Curve....Pages 88-111
Why Long-Run Unemployment Rates Differ between Countries....Pages 112-124
Search Unemployment....Pages 125-144
A Simulation Model of Employment, Unemployment and Labor Turnover....Pages 145-162
Schooling Interruption, Work While in School and the Returns from Schooling....Pages 163-175
The Hidden Economy: The Labor Market and Tax Evasion....Pages 176-183