Umfang:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783631756867
Serie:
Cege-Schriften Series v.6
Inhalt:
Cover -- Forewords -- Table of contents -- List of tables, figures and maps -- Introduction -- A) Spatial economic disparities within the European Union: The evidence -- A1) Preface: Level of spatial disaggregation and the choice of territorial units -- A2) Gross domestic product (GDP) -- A2.1.) GDP of European NUTS II-regions, 1999 -- A2.2.) Regional convergence versus divergence in Europe -- A3) Regional unemployment in Europe -- A3.1.) Unemployment rates in NUTS2-regions, 2000 -- A3.2.) Convergence versus divergence of regional unemployment rates -- A4) Other regional indicators -- A4.1.) Employment Growth -- A4.2.) Population Density, Population Changes and Migration -- A4.3.) Education -- A4.4.) Innovation and research activities -- A5) A closer look at the West German Länder -- A6) Summing up the evidence -- B) Macroeconomic theories of unemployment and the "European labour market model" -- B1) Introduction -- B2) A brief historical overview about macroeconomics -- B2.1.) The 'classics' -- B2.2.) Keynes and the neoclassical synthesis -- B2.3.) Friedman and the 'natural rate of unemployment' -- B2.4.) 'New classical macroeconomics' and rational expectations -- B2.5.) The Keynesian response -- B3) The "European labour market model (ELMM)" -- B3.1.) Why is there insider power in the labour market -- B3.2.) The aggregate wage setting curve -- B3.3.) The aggregate price setting curve -- B3.4.) Equilibrium in the ELMM -- B3.5.) Some further issues of the ELMM -- C) The wage curve -- C1) Introduction -- C2) The wage curve as an empirical regularity -- C3) Wage curve theory: The Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C3.1.) The partial equilibrium foundation of the wage curve -- C3.2.) General equilibrium in the Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C3.3.) Critique of the Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C4) The model of Blien (2001).
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ISBN 9783631517451
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783631517451
Sprache:
Englisch
