Nonlinear Labor Market Dynamics

Nonlinear Labor Market Dynamics
Author: Michael Neugart
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642583482

Nonlinear Labor Market Dynamics discusses adjustment processes in labor markets. Contrary to linear-stochastic approaches this book is based on a non-linear deterministic framework. It is shown that even textbook-like-models of the labor market can generate long lasting adjustment processes, local instabilities, and chaotic movements, once nonlinear relationships and widely accepted adjustment rules are introduced. Thus, labor market dynamics may have an endogenous component that is governed by a nonlinear deterministic core. Of course, all results are tied to the particular models discussed in this book. Nevertheless, these models imply that by incorporating nonlinear relationships, one may arrive at an explanation of labor market behavior where linear stochastic approaches fell. Time series studies for German labor market data support this point of view.

The Handbook of Organizational Economics

The Handbook of Organizational Economics
Author: Robert Gibbons
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 1248
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691132798

(E-book available via MyiLibrary) In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational economics seeks to understand the nature and workings of such organizations and their impact on economic performance. The Handbook of Organizational Economics surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays the breadth of topics in organizational economics, including the roles of individuals and groups in organizations, organizational structures and processes, the boundaries of the firm, contracts between and within firms, and more.

Happiness Quantified

Happiness Quantified
Author: Bernard M. S. van Praag
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199226148

Using German, British, Dutch, and Russian data, the authors cover a wide range of topics.

Dual Labor Markets

Dual Labor Markets
Author: Gilles Saint-Paul
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780262193764

Uses theoretical models to analyse the macroeconomic implications of the dual labour market. Includes an introduction to the techniques of dynamic programming and the matching function.

International Bibliography of Economics 1994

International Bibliography of Economics 1994
Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415127837

The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Search Theory and Unemployment

Search Theory and Unemployment
Author: Stephen A. Woodbury
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9401002355

Search Theory and Unemployment contains nine chapters that survey and extend the theory of job search and its application to the problem of unemployment. The volume ranges from surveys of job search theory that take microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives to original theoretical contributions which focus on the externalities arising from non-sequential search and search under imperfect information. It includes a clear and authoritative survey of econometric methods that have been developed to estimate models of job search, as well as two lucid contributions to the empirical search literature. Finally, it includes a study that reviews and extends the literature on optimal unemployment insurance and concludes with an appraisal of the influence of search theory on the thinking of macroeconomic policymakers.