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The UK Productivity and Jobs Puzzle: Does the Answer Lie in Labour Market Flexibility?

Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand … misallocation. The fall in labour productivity is therefore likely to reverse if demand improves - e.g. through stronger monetary or …

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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...

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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample

Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000

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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states

Holzer, Harry J. - 2012

To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...

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Employment verification mandates and the labor market outcomes of likely unauthorized and native workers

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2013

impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations … likelihood of native workers. Impacts on wages are positive for likely unauthorized women suggesting a large labor supply … reduction. For native-born workers, hourly wages also increase and provide some evidence of substitutability of unauthorized …

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...