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Unequal Britain: How Real Are Regional Disparities?

Gibbons, Steve; Overman, Henry - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Average earnings vary widely across the regions of Britain, a fact that has prompted many decades of policies aimed at reducing regional disparities. But as Henry Overman and Steve Gibbons demonstrate, such variation reveals little, especially if we ignore regional differences in the cost of...

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Managers' Mobility, Trade Status and Wages

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...

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Has job polarisation squeezed the American middle class?

Boehm, Michael - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Job polarisation has had strong effects on US workers' relative wages, according to research by Michael Boehm. His study examines whether the decline in manufacturing and clerical jobs has been responsible for the lagging wages of middle-skill workers in the United States. Comparing the...

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Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from the Allocation of Talents

Boehm, Michael J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Over the last two decades, earnings in the United States increased at the top and at the bottom of the wage distribution but not in the middle - the intensely debated middle class squeeze. At the same time there was a substantial decline of employment in middle-skill production and clerical...

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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality and Wages: Evidence from Mexico

Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...

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Incentives in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, A - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

analyze the effect of changes in the macro economic variables on the wage contract and the unemployment rate. We find that … private information may increase the responsiveness of the unemployment rate to changes in productivity. The incentive power … of the wage contracts is positively related to high productivity, low unemployment benefits and high search frictions. …

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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

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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Resurrecting the Participation Margin

Ebell, Monique - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

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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Tackling long-term unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Barbara Petrongolo surveys the research evidence on the effectiveness of the 'sticks' and 'carrots' of active labour market policies.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774266

Tackling long-term unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Barbara Petrongolo surveys the research evidence on the effectiveness of the 'sticks' and 'carrots' of active labour market policies.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738424

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