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Unemployment: macroeconomic performance and the labour market

Richard Layard, Stephen John Nickell, Richard Jackman

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A broad survey of the subject of unemployment. The authors present a general model and much empirical material from Europe and America and explain what has happened to employment levels in the industrialized countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

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A broad survey of the subject of unemployment. The authors present a general model and much empirical material from Europe and America and explain what has happened to employment levels in the industrialized countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

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A broad survey of the subject of unemployment. The authors present a general model and much empirical material from Europe and America and explain what has happened to employment levels in the industrialized countries in the 1970s and 1980s.

Key concepts: Unemployment, Labour economics, Economics, Full employment, Macroeconomics

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