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kobvindex_HPB1229475049
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9783631517451
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3631517459
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9783631756867
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3631756860
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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
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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
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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
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C3.3.) Critique of the Blanchflower/Oswald-model -- C4) The model of Blien (2001) -- C4.1.) Partial labour market equilibrium in the Blien-model -- C4.2.) The product market and general equilibrium in the Blien-model -- C4.3.) Critique of the Blien-model -- C5) Conclusion on wage curve theory and motivation for an own approach -- D) Regional agglomeration theory and 'new economic geography' -- D1) Introduction -- D2) Scale economies, externalities, and market competition -- D3) The Marshallian agglomeration economies -- D4) Centrifugal forces and other location factors
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D5) The core-periphery model of 'new economic geography' -- D5.1.) Consumer behaviour -- D5.2.) Production -- D5.3.) Equilibrium conditions -- D5.4.) Sustainability -- D5.5.) Stability -- D5.6.) 'New economic geography' and the new trade theory -- D6) Other 'new economic geography'-models -- D6.1.) Venables (1996) and Krugman/Venables (1995) -- D6.2.) Housing scarcity: Helpman (1998) -- D6.3.) Analytically tractable models -- D6.4.) More sectors, more regions -- D6.5.) Dynamic models -- D6.6.) Empirics, politics, and other unsettled issues
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks), OAPEN
Language:
English
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