Wages, Employment, Distribution and Growth

ECKHARD HEIN is Senior Researcher at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Duesseldorf and Visiting Lecturer at Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany. ARNE HEISE is Professor of Economics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. ACHIM TRUGER is Senior Researcher at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) in the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany.

This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play.This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included in the analysis and are shown to have a major role to play.