A Theory of Employment in Firms: Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Internal Organiza - Paperback

EAN (ISBN-13): 9783790815207
ISBN (ISBN-10): 3790815209
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Publishing year: 2002
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
220 Pages
Weight: 0,339 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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Author: Josef Falkinger
Title: Contributions to Economics; A Theory of Employment in Firms - Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Internal Organization of Work
Publisher: Physica; Physica
206 Pages
Publishing year: 2002-09-11
Heidelberg; DE
Language: English
53,49 € (DE)
54,99 € (AT)
59,00 CHF (CH)
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BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaft; Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie; Verstehen; Employability; Employment; Job Creation; Job Destruction; Lean; Macroeconomic Equilibrium; Organization of Work; Provision of Work Places; Unemployment; organization; organizations; production; Labor Economics; Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Organization; Human Resource Management; Makroökonomie; Organisationstheorie und -verhalten; Personalmanagement, HRM; EA

1.1 A new theory.- 1.2 (Un)employment.- 1.3 Work organization and macroeconomic equilibrium.- 1.4 Skill bias and skill requirements.- 1.5 Other sources of unemployment.- 1.6 Main result and organization of the book.- The basic model.- 2.1 Endowment, technology, demand and market structure.- 2.2 Prices and production in the monopolistic competition equilibrium (stage 2).- 2.3 The equilibrium provision of work places (stage 1).- 2.4 The macroeconomic equilibrium: Summary and discussion.- Unemployability and involuntary unemployment.- 3.1 Equilibrium employment vs. efficient level of employment.- 3.2 Unemployment under wage rigidity.- 3.3 Market power of firms and rents for firm owners.- 3.4 Employment when firms have uncertain expectations.- Equilibrium reorganization of work and aggregate level of employment.- 4.1 Employment under different organization technologies and the available range of abilities.- 4.2 Central coordination versus decentralized communication.- 4.3 The adoption of organization technologies by firms.- 4.4 Equilibrium employment after reorganization.- 4.5 Job creation, job destruction and lean management.- Skilled and unskilled labor.- 5.1 Skilled labor as a limiting factor.- 5.2 Extension of the basic model to two types of labor.- 5.3 Employment and skill structure of jobs in the macroeconomic equilibrium.- 5.4 The role of skill supply and technological change for the employment of unskilled labor.- 5.5 (Un)employment of skilled and unskilled labor when highskilled workers have the power to acquire a rent.- Capital and the provision of work places.- 6.1 Introducing capital into the basic model.- 6.2 Employment and interest rate in the macroeconomic equilibrium.- 6.3 Comparative-static analysis of the macroeconomic equilibrium.- 6.4 The macroeconomic equilibrium when capital supply is elastic.- 6.5 Capital mobility and employment.- Investment and savings. Supply-side vs. demand-side macroeconomic equilibria.- 7.1 The relationship between investment, savings and other macroeconomic variables.- 7.2 Supply side vs. demand side in the equilibrium at stage 2.- 7.3 Equilibrium accumulation and equilibrium provision of jobs when firms are supply oriented.- 7.4 Equilibrium employment and equilibrium accumulation when firms have pessimistic demand expectations.- Summary.- A. Appendix to Chapter 2.- B. Appendix to Chapter 6.- References.- Author index.
A new theory which explains the impact of the internal organization of work on employment Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras