Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. The Unemployment Crisis: All for Nought? xiii
6. The Macroeconomics of Unemployment
7. Digging a Hole or Laying the Foundation? The Objectives of Macroeconomic Policy in Canada 3
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Zero-Inflation Optimism 14
9. Real Interest Rates, Inflation, and Unemployment 39
10. Using the NAIRU as a Basis for Macroeconomic Policy: An Evaluation 56
11. Unemployment Insurance: Culprit or Not?
12. Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment – Revisited 75
13. Why Do We Know So Little about Unemployment Determination and the Effects of Unemployment Insurance? 107
14. Does Unemployment Insurance Increase Unemployment? 129
15. Unemployment in Comparative Perspective
16. The Rise of Unemployment in Ontario 153
17. Joblessness among Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples 177
18. Unemployment Persistence in France and Germany 207
19. Low Unemployment in Japan: The Product of Socio-economic Coherence 226
20. Which Way Now?
21. A Macroeconomic Policy Package for the 19905 247
22. Index 253