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Nickell, Stephen was born on April 25, 1944.
(This fully revised and up-dated abridgement of the well-e...)
This fully revised and up-dated abridgement of the well-established 1991 book, Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market is now an entirely accessible textbook on unemployment. It offers a wide-ranging international analysis of labor market institutions, recent unemployment experience, and governmental policies. The authors question the inevitability of present levels of unemployment in the Western world, and the view that there exists a trade-off between price stability and unemployment levels. This volume presents a lucid and comprehensive explanation of the reasons for unemployment, the existence of an average level, and the reasons why unemployment levels often fluctuate. The authors have created a general framework for their analysis that fully integrates macroeconomic theory with a detailed look at the microeconomic workings of the labor market. They effectively incorporate the latest theoretical research on topics such as insider-outsider theories and hysteresis in labor markets, and reveal the role of factors such as union bargaining, efficiency wages, and labor practices to combat unemployment. Students will find this book essential because of its comprehensive coverage of unemployment in the international arena and its clear exposition.
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Nickell, Stephen was born on April 25, 1944.
Bachelor in Mathematics, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1962—1965. Master of Science in Mathematics Economics and Econometrics, with distinction, London School Economics, 1968—1970.
Mathematics teacher Hendon County School, London, 1965—1968. Lecturer in economics London School Economics, 1970—1977, reader in economics, 1977—1979, professor economics, 1979—1984, school professor economics, 1998—2005. Professor economics University Oxford, 1984—1998, director Institute Economics and Statistics, 1984—1998.
Professorial fellow Nuffield College University Oxford, 1984—1998, warden, since 2006. Visiting research fellow Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Adminstration Economique, Paris, 1974—1975. Visiting research associate Industrial Relations Section University Princeton, New Jersey, 1979.
External member monetary policy committee Bank of England, 2000—2006. Editorial board Review Economic Studies, 1973—1987, assistant editor, 1974—1975, joint managing editor, 1975—1978. Associate editor Economic Journal, 1981—2000, International Journal Industrial Organization, 1983—1987.
Editor Oxford Bulletin Economics and Statistics, 1984—1998. Fellow Center Economics Policy Research, 1983. Council Royal Economic Society, 1984—1994.
Founding council member European Economic Association, 1985—1988, council member, since 1999. Member economic research advisory panel Welsh Assembly Government, since 2004.
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Advisory board Institute International Economic Studies University Stockholm, Sweden, since 1990. International board advisory Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, 1994. Chairman board advisory Center Microdata Methods and Practice University College London, since 2001.
Chairman, council management National Institute Economic and Social Research, since 2003. Advisory panel Leverhulme Trust, since 2000. Fellow: British Academy, Econometric Society (program committee European meetings 1977-1979, program committee World Congress 1980, program committee European meetings 1981-1983, program committee World Congress 1985), Nuffield College (honorary).
Member: European Association Labor Economists (president 1999—2002), British Association for Advancement of Science (president economics section 2001), Marshall Society (University Cambridge) (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary. Foreign member 2006), Pembroke College, Cambridge (honorary), Royal Economic Society (president 2001-2004, vice president since 2004), American Economic Association (foreign member 1997).