Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions

Name: Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions
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ISBN: 9780198293323

ISBN-10: 0198293321

ISBN-13: 9780198293323

Edition: 2000

Authors: Gilles Saint-Paul

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The book ascribes a central role to the existence of underlying microeconomic frictions and to redistributive pressures between rich and poor, and shows how these ingredients may give rise to labour market rents, which in turn explain why a coherent set of rigidities arise as the outcome of the political process.

Book details

List price: $290.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Gilles Saint-Paul is professor of economics at the Toulouse School of Economics. His books include "Innovation and Inequality" (Princeton).



the Political Economy Of Labour Market Institutions


The Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions


Introduction


Appendix Some Notes on the Literature



the Support for Labour Market Regulations



The No-Rent Society



A Less Perfect World: Market Rents and Redistributive Conflict



Wage Rigidity and Social Cohesion


Appendix the Model with a Continuum of Agents



Employment Protection



Unemployment Benefits and Other Measures for the Unemployed



the Political Economy of Labour Market Reform



The Constituency Effect



The Identifiability Effect


Appendix Determination and Properties of the Two Regimes



Two-Tier Systems


A8.1 Computation of the Employed's Welfare Under a Critical Time



Politico-Economic Complementarities


Bibliography


Index