. Nevertheless, employment rates remained higher than might have been expected given the experience of previous recessions. The main …. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment …

Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical … over the last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job …

, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an …

finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

popular with voters - but even most economists now agree that they have little or no negative effect on employment. Big … increases in minimum wages will test the view that negative effects on employment must eventually kick in. …

shocks. This wage flexibility is desirable as it reduces the risks of long-term unemployment building up. After accounting …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is …