Growth, unemployment, and deindustrialization
Henri L.F. de Groot.
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA Edward Elgar c2000.
- xvi, 315 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-312) and index.
Growth, Unemployment and Deindustrialization: An Introduction -- Motivation -- Unemployment and growth -- Sectoral structure and growth -- Organization and contents of the book -- Relative Productivity and Unemployment -- Unemployment and Catchi ng Up: Europe vis-a-vis the USA -- A dual economy -- The allocation of labour -- Relative convergence -- Producer behaviour -- Solution under asymmetries -- Macroeconomic Consequences of Downsizing -- Downsizing and growth -- Downsizing and unemployment -- Mathematics of the model -- Catching Up and the Changing Sectoral Composition of a Small Open Economy -- The model -- Solution of the model -- Financial equilibrium during transition -- Growth and Unemployment -- Unemployment, Growth and Efficiency Wages -- A model of RandD and unemployment in a dual economy -- The steady state of the model -- Properties of the model under the regime of free entry -- Properties of the model under the regime of blocked entry -- Derivation of equations (5.11)-(5.15) -- Solution of the complete model -- Some numerical simulations -- Unemployment, Growth and Trade Unions -- Consumer and producer behaviour -- The labour market of the model -- Endogenous growth and equilibrium unemployment -- Extensions and generalization of the model -- Sectoral Structure and Growth -- The Determination and Development of Sectoral Structures -- Empirical evidence -- A simple model -- The two-sector version of the model -- The model in a multi-sector context -- Derivation of demand functions.