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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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The Spot Market Matters : Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2021
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical work is carried out separately for males and females with individual-level data taken from the...
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The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
Bell, David N.F. - 2019
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
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The decline of overtime working in Britain
Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2019
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120652
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Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262351
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Hours and wages in the depression : British engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2000
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325987
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General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
Hart, Robert A. - 2003
The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output shock occurred in 1929/30. At this time, easily the most important source of United Kingdom general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261536
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General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression : Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
Hart, Robert A. - 2021
The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output shock occurred in 1929/30. At this time, easily the most important source of United Kingdom general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319890
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Hours and Wages in the Depression : British Engineering, 1926-1938
Hart, Robert A. - 2021
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321306
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Unemployment and the inter-regional mobility of labour
Pissaridēs, Christophoros A.; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1987
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