Full Employment in Britain in the 1990's : Lessons from Other Industrial Nations

Robinson, Peter

Avebury（1991/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 229 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781856281249
• DDC分類 339.50941

Full Description

This book looks at important factors which contribute towards high unemployment in Britain, including macroeconomic policy, pay bargaining, education and training issues, urban and regional problems and racial disadvantage. It looks at the lessons for Britain of the performance of the US, German, Swedish and Japanese economies. The main conclusion of the book is that we need to refocus our attention back to the performance of the economy as a whole as the main driving force behind unemployment and the way that the macroeconomy is constrained by pay bargaining arrangements in different countries. The corollary is not that macroeconomic issues such as training are unimportant, but that they deserve less weight than was fashionable in the 1980s.

Contents

The consequences of the `accidental boom', 1986-89; stagflation - lessons from other places; education and training in Britain - getting the questions right; what can Britain learn from Sweden's commitment to full employment?; employment and education programmes in the United States; regional and urban unemployment and its consequences; how should employment and training, education, urban and regional and enterprise policies be co-ordinated in Britain?; racial disadvantage and the economic cycle.