1. Introducion -- 2. Concepts and data -- 3. Sub-regional changes in employment structure -- 4. The changing distribution of industries -- 5. The contribution of industrial change to sub-regional growth -- 6. Conclusion.

Throughout the OECD, 30 per cent of the average firm's total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This book focuses on two major areas of enquiry: the costs for the cyclical behaviour of employment, and the role of average working hours per employee in the...

First published in 1989, Alon Kadish's study re-examines the standard view held by historians of economic thought whereby economic history emerged from the historicist criticism of neoclassical economic theory. He also demonstrates how the discipline evolved as an extension of the study of...