The unemployment debate

This bundle contains selected and refereed contributions to the Autumn-conference of the German Association of Political Economy held at Maastricht in 1997. The mainly theoretically oriented papers deal with current issues in the unemployment debate both from a macro- and a micro-economic perspective: Macro-economic policies and income inequality, unemployment, inflation and growth European welfare states and unemployment Labour markets institutions and labour markets performance Labour market deregulation and unemployment The bundle is especially interesting for economists and social scientists working in the field of macro-economics and labour economics and/or being interested in the theoretical underpinning of topical macro-economic and labour market policy. Contents Heinz-Peter Spahn: Disinflation and unemployment Henri L. F. de Groot/Anton B. T. M. van Schaik: Growth and unemploymment in a dual economy Winfried Vogt: Inequality, unemployment and inflation Thomas Zwick: Market power of skilled workers cause unemployment - so what? Arnim Falk/Simon Gächter: Why firms refuse to hire underbidders Thomas Wagner/Elke J. Jahn: Does active job search reduce unemployment? Justus Haucap/Uwe Pauly/Christian Wey: The incentives of employers' associations to raise rivals' costs in the presence of collective bargaining Ivo de Loo/Thomas Ziesemer: Sectoral average wage and employment growth rates in a specific factors model with international capital movements.