Unemployment
Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market
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This broad survey of unemployment is a benchmark summary of the authors position which became hugely influential. This second edition brings the analysis up to date by relating it to recent empirical developments. This book is a major source of reference for both scholars and students.
Richard Layard
Richard Layard is Co-Director of the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE. He is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of wellbeing. He has written six books on the subject including Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (2005; translated into 20 languages). Until 2000 he worked on unemployment, co-writing the leading book Unemployment (1991). He is a member of the Hose of Lords and an active campaigner for better policy-making.
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