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" A Theory of Employment in Firms Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Internal Organization of Work "
by Josef Falkinger.
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by Josef Falkinger.
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A Theory of Employment in Firms Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Internal Organization of Work\ by Josef Falkinger.
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Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD Imprint: Physica, 2002
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Contributions to Economics
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(x, 206 Seiten)
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3790826499
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: 9783790826494
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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.- 2.1.1 Labor supply.- 2.1.2 Organization technology.- 2.1.3 Production technology.- 2.1.4 Demand in the goods market.- 2.1.5 Firm behavior and equilibrium.- 2.2 Prices and production in the monopolistic competition equilibrium (stage 2).- 2.2.1 The goods market.- 2.2.2 The labor market.- 2.3 The equilibrium provision of work places (stage 1).- 2.4 The macroeconomic equilibrium: Summary and discussion.- 2.4.1 Equilibrium employment.- 2.4.2 The ratio of non-production labor to labor in production.- 2.4.3 Equilibrium prices and wages.- 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.- 3.3.1 The role of market power in a zero profit equilibrium.- 3.3.2 The role of rents for firm-owners.- 3.4 Employment when firms have uncertain expectations.- 3.4.1 Unanticipated shocks.- 3.4.2 Macroeconomic equilibrium and the state of long-term 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.- 4.2.1 Central coordination.- 4.2.2 Decentralized communication.- 4.3 The adoption of organization technologies by firms.- 4.4 Equilibrium employment after reorganization.- 4.4.1 Equilibrium with dominating reorganization technology.- 4.4.2 Equilibrium with non-dominating reorganization technology.- 4.5 Job creation, job destruction and lean management.- 4.5.1 Is reorganization harmful for employment?.- 4.5.2 Is reorganization successful in bringing down the ratio of non-production to production work?.- 4.5.3 Some remarks on the role of shareholder orientation and globalization for the reorganization of work.- Skilled and unskilled labor.- 5.1 Skilled labor as a limiting factor.- 5.2 Extension of the basic model to two types of labor.- 5.2.1 Endowment and technology.- 5.2.2 Monopolistic competition at stage 2.- 5.2.3 The firms' provision of work places at stage 1.- 5.2.4 Aggregate employment and wages implied by the behavior of firms.- 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.- 5.4.1 Supply of skilled labor and (un-)employment of unskilled labor.- 5.4.2 The impacts of technological change.- 5.5 (Un)employment of skilled and unskilled labor when highskilled workers have the power to acquire a rent.- 5.5.1 Rigidity of the relative wage of skilled labor.- 5.5.2 Rents of non-production workers.- 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.- 6.3.1 Equilibrium employment and interest rate as functions of capital supply.- 6.3.2 The effects of a change in the non-production requirements of organizing work.- 6.3.3 Size of the labor force and return on capital.- 6.4 The macroeconomic equilibrium when capital supply is elastic.- 6.4.1 Equilibrium in a perfect capital market.- 6.4.2 The impact of capital market imperfections on employment.- 6.5 Capital mobility and employment.- 6.5.1 Equilibrium in a small open economy.- 6.5.2 International equilibrium with and without capital mobility.- Investment and savings. Supply-side vs. demand-side macroeconomic equilibria.- 7.1 The relationship between investment, savings and other macroeconomic variables.- 7.1.1 Macroeconomic relationships in a monopolistic competition equilibrium (stage 2).- 7.1.2 Relationships between macroeconomic variables in a two-stage equilibrium.- 7.1.3 Equilibrium accumulation.- 7.2 Supply side vs. demand side in the equilibrium at stage 2.- 7.2.1 Full utilization of capacity.- 7.2.2 Underutilization of capacity when macroeconomic activity is constrained by effective demand.- 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.- 7.4.1 Demand-determined two-stage equilibrium.- 7.4.2 Investment and savings in a demand-determined equilibrium.- Summary.- A. Appendix to Chapter 2.- B. Appendix to Chapter 6.- References.- Author index.
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Organization
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Personnel management
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Planning
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