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Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The recession of 2008-09 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the previous post-war recessions, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an explanation.

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The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession

Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages … back and productivity growth remains low, it may be that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last …

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The Relative Economic Importance of Academic, Psychological and Behavioural Attributes Developed on Chilhood

Feinstein, L - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...

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A Picture of Job Insecurity Facing British Men

Jones, Patricia Tracy; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, 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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Wage Equations, Wage Curves and All That

Bell, B; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …

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The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

by wages in new matches. I summarize microeconometric evidence on wages in new matches and show that the key model … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …

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Span of Control and Span of Activity

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

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