The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists,
librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe …

Transition in Central and Eastern Europe has led to a U-shaped response of output: a sharp
decline in output followed by recovery. Most of the countries of Central Europe seem now …

The debate over the source and propagation of economic fluctuations rages as fiercely
today as it did 50 years ago in the aftermath of Keynes's The General Theory and in the …

We present evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using SIPP data
adjusted for measurement error. The SIPP is a representative sample of the US population …

Unemployment varies greatly across OECD countries and over time. During the past two
decades, it was relatively trendless, albeit subject to cyclical fluctuations, in Japan and the …

This chapter begins, however, with reflections on the origin of the theme in nineteenth-
century social science, on the premise that social theories, just as societies and their …

Unemployeement and taxes Do taxes affect the rate of umemployeement? To the layman,
the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown of economic …

We show that cross-country comparisons of corporate labor shares are affected by
differences in the delineation of corporate sectors. While the United States excludes all self …

II. Different effects of active labour market policies................ 13 A. Effects on the matching
process......................... 13 B. Effects on the labour force............................. 15 C. Competition …

Competitive Governments systematically explores the hypothesis that governments are
internally competitive, that they are competitive in their relations with each other and in their …