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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Employability and the costs of organizing work
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Josef Falkinger
Editors
  • Andrie de Grip
  • Jasper van Loo
  • Ken Mayhew
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle The Economics of Skills Obsolescence: Research in Labor Economics
ISBN 978-0-76230-960-3 (P) 978-1-84950-175-0 (O)
Number 21
Place of Publication Bingley UK
Publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Page Range 145 - 219
Date 2002
Abstract Text A new macroeconomic equilibrium theory is presented which gives a rigorous economic foundation of the notion of employability. Employability depends on the one side on the workers' interactive abilities, but on the other side also on the skill requirements implied by the organizational environment provided by firms. It is shown that the range of abilities which is considered as unemployable by the firms varies with the competitive pressure in the goods market as well as with the used organization methods. Under fairly general conditions the resulting level of equilibrium employment is lower than the efficient level.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/S0147-9121(02)21011-0
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