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Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by...

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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...

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All-Star or benchwarmer? relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...

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Is the Euro Working? The Euro and European Labour Markets

Silvia, Stephen - EconWPA - 2005

Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to assess many arguments made in the abstract during the 1990s about the implications of monetary union. This contribution does precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls...

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A picture of job insecurity facing British men

Nickell, Stephen; Jones, Tracy; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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The unemployment volatility puzzle: is wage stickiness the answer?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

the model’s failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment.. Job creation in the model is influenced by … are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

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