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Tackling unemployment

Layard, Richard (1999) Tackling unemployment. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333722329

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Identification Number: 10.1057/9780230379206

Abstract

Richard Layard is one of Britain's foremost applied economists, whose work has had a profound impact on the policy debate in Britain and abroad. This book contains his most influential articles on the subject of unemployment. It is published along with a companion volume Inequality , which deals with these topics and with economic transition. Unemployment explains what causes unemployment and proposes remedies to reduce it. There is a strong focus on how unemployed people are treated and how this affects unemployment - including Layard's well-known recommendation of a job-guarantee for long term unemployed people. Other key topics covered are the effect of unions and wage bargaining, the effect of low skill, and the possible role of rigid employment laws. The book opens with Richard Layard's personal credo Why I became an Economist.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/97802303792...
Additional Information: © 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
Divisions: Centre for Economic Performance
Economics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Date Deposited: 24 Jun 2008 11:33
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:33
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5980

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