Publisher's Synopsis
This volume is based on the proceedings of a conference held at the Science Centre Berlin in September 1986. It was designed to bring together economists from Europe, Japan and North America to present new research to the OECD-wide debate on high and persistent unemployment rates and related employment problems.;Relationships between employment and unemployment on one hand and labour utilization and work intensity on the other are discussed. The latter two variables include standard working hours, overtime working, part-time working and flexible staffing arrangements. A recurring emphasis is placed on the role of labour costs in employment/labour utilization decisions while an another theme is the influence of job security policies.;The work also allows for some comparison between Europe and North America, as for example the relationship between employment and hours of work. It aims to provide a wide range of international comparative empirical results which may help labour market economists in establishing general methodology and common research ground.
