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Full employment abandoned: shifting sands and policy failures

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  • William Mitchell
  • Joan Muysken

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This paper briefly analyses the shifts in economic theory that have moved policy makers from unambiguously pursuing full employment to the current state where full employability is justified as being optimal. We also explore how these theoretical developments translated in practice, culminating in the 1994 OECD Jobs Study, which eschewed a role for macroeconomic policy in reducing unemployment. The final sections of the paper outline an alternative view of macroeconomic theory and policy opportunities. We argue that a central plank in modern macroeconomic policy settings should be the introduction of employment guarantees, which we term the Job Guarantee (JG).

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Article provided by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd in its journal International Journal of Public Policy.

Volume (Year): 5 (2010)
Issue (Month): 4 (January)
Pages: 295-313

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Handle: RePEc:ids:ijpubp:v:5:y:2010:i:4:p:295-313

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Keywords: full employment; macroeconomic policies; job guarantees; policy failures; economic theories; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; OECD Jobs Study 1994; unemployment; employment guarantees; job guarantee; public policy; governance;

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  1. Vickrey, William, 1993. "Today's Task for Economists," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(1), pages 1-10, March.
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Cited by:
  1. Gerards, Ruud, 2012. "Unemployment and employability: how firms can help," Open Access publications from Maastricht University urn:nbn:nl:ui:27-29158, Maastricht University.
  2. Lawn, Philip, 2011. "Wake up economists! - Currency-issuing central governments have no budget constraint," MPRA Paper 28224, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Stavros A. Drakopoulos, 2010. "Economic Policies, Socieconomic Factors and Overall Health: A Short Review," EERI Research Paper Series EERI_RP_2010_13, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels.
  4. Scott Baum & William Mitchell, 2010. "Labour Underutilisation and Gender: Unemployment Versus Hidden-Unemployment," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer, vol. 29(2), pages 233-248, April.
  5. Stavros A. Drakopoulos, 2011. "Economic Policies, Political Considerations and Overall Health," Economic Analysis and Policy (EAP), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), School of Economics and Finance, vol. 41(3), pages 273-286, December.

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