ISBN: 0140222146
Godina izdanja: 1979
Oblast: Ekonomija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Kevin Hawkins - Unemployment: facts, figures and possible solutions for Britain
Penguin, 1979
143 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Monograph on the unemployment problem in the UK - covers trends in voluntary (esp. Frictional unemployment) and involuntary unemployment (esp. Redundancy and high rate of unemployed youth due to over-labour supply), considers economic theories of full employment (Phillips curve, keynesian approach, balance of payments, etc.), And discusses employment policy options relating to incomes policy, with a view to inflation control, employment creation and work sharing. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Subjects: Labor supply Great Britain. Unemployment Great Britain. Labour market. Labour policy. Unemployment - Labour Economics - Great Britain. Unemployment - Great Britain - Government Policy

This short book has four substantive chapters. The first discusses the literature on the measurement of unemployment; the second its incidence; the third considers definitions of full employment, constraints on reducing the current level, and likely future trends. The final chapter entitled `Some Options for Policy-makers` contains a lengthy discussion of Manpower Services Commission programmes and brief reviews of the debates on import controls, incomes policies, and work-sharing. The author`s view is that there is a substantial structural component in rising unemployment levels and that appropriate policy measures involve an extension of positive labour market policies, fiscal policies to encourage enterprise, and the reform of collective bargaining. This is a book for the general reader rather than the specialist and may find some use as background reading on `A` level and university economics courses for non-specialists. While a wide range of issues is touched on, the treatment is superficial. The author`s opinions, of which there are plenty, are not buttressed with detailed argument. Difficult concepts such as voluntary and structural unemployment are freely and loosely used. The tables in chapter 3 are too detailed and complicated to assist the reader in grasping the points made in the text. For the most part they consist of data taken without modification from official sources. Fewer numbers, and more thought given to their presentation, would have improved this chapter. Even trained economists cannot easily read trends in large tables of six and seven figure numbers. JOHN BOWERS

As Britain`s `unemployment problem` persists, discussion and argument about it grow in fervour and complexity. But just who believes what? Who agrees with whom? What are facts and what mere opinions and prophesies? Above all, what is being done about the problem?
In this Pelican Original, Kevin Hawkins provides an up-to-date briefing on these mysteries, surveying all the major theories and courses of action-current and proposed. Into a coherent context go the Phillips Curve, Bacon and Eltis, Lord Keynes and Professor Friedman, the `welfare scroungers` theory, the Manpower Services Commission, the balance of payments, the apprenticeship system and much else besides.
There are many unemployment problems and no single solution; but, as the author shows, some-if not all-can be solved.
Cover design by Jones Thompson

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