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This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817753
This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764644
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to both unemployment and underemployment, which in our view are invalid. Without any evidence … the MPC in its assessment of the output gap reduces the level of unemployment because of its claim that long …-term unemployment has no effect on wages. We produce contrary evidence. The MPC further reduces the level of underemployment in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051159
and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are … particularly susceptible to the negative effects of spells of unemployment well after their initial experience of worklessness …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935007
-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … using microdata. We argue that there is convincing evidence that the effects of unemployment when young impose costs on … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009259467
-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … using microdata. We argue that there is convincing evidence that the effects of unemployment when young impose costs on … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125470
inflationary pressures and to lower the natural rate of unemployment …
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The authors investigate processes of job creation and job destruction in Britain, using data from the Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys of 1980, 1984, and 1990. They find that rates of employment growth, job creation, job destruction, and job reallocation (the sum of job creation and job...
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Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations …. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1. -- wage determination ; unemployment ; wage curve ; Philips curve …
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