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particular have suffered the 'double whammy' of greater falls in real wages and bigger rises in unemployment. No party has a …
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Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...
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This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …
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Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
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unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
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unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …
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-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …
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becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
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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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I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
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