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The ins and outs of European unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the late 1980s. -- Unemployment dynamics ; job finding rates ; job separation rates …

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What can wages and employment tell us about the UK's productivity puzzle?

Blundell, Richard W.; Crawford, Claire; Jin, Wenchao - 2013

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have fallen significantly within jobs. Why? One possibility...

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Getting the unemployed back to work : the role of targeted wage subsidies

Bell, Brian; Blundell, Richard W.; Van Reenen, John - 1999

This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes. It does this in the context of a recent active labour market reform for the young unemployed in Britain. This "New Deal" reform and the characteristics of the target group are examined in detail. We discuss theoretical...

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Extensive and intensive margins of labour supply : working hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W.; Bozio, Antoine; Laroque, Guy - 2011

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...

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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Design of Earned Income Tax Credits

Blundell, Richard W. - 2008

This paper examines the optimal schedule of marginal tax rates and the design of earned income tax credits. The analysis is based on a structural labour supply model which incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work and the detailed non-convexities of the tax and welfare system....

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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms

Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

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Active Labour Market Policy vs Employment Tax Credits : Lessons from Recent UK Reforms

Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2008

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective - active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113612

Interpreting aggregate wage growth

Blundell, Richard W.; Reed, Howard; Stoker, Thomas Martin - 2000

This paper analyzes the relationship between aggregate wages and individual wages when there is time series variation in employment and in the dispersion of wages. A new and easily implementable framework for the empirical analysis of aggregation biases is developed. Aggregate real wages are...

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Two decades of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Belfield, Chris; Blundell, Richard W.; Cribb, Jonathan; … - 2017

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the past two decades, including the period of relatively "inclusive" growth from 1997-2004 and the Great Recession. We focus on the middle 90%, where trends have contrasted strongly with the "new inequality" at the very top. Household...

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