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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals

Bell, Brian; Bindler, Anna; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns suffer from poor job matches that have a sustained detrimental effect on their wages and career...

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The Objective Benefits of Subjective Well-Being

Neve, Jan-Emmanuel De; Diener, Ed; Tay, Louis; Xuereb, Cody - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

The aim of this paper is to survey the "hard" evidence on the effects of subjective well-being. In doing so, we complement the evidence on the determinants of well-being by showing that human well-being also affects outcomes of interest such as health, income, and social behaviour. Generally, we...

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The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession

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

. 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 …

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Falling real wages

Blanchflower, David; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

The researchers note that there have been historically unprecedented falls in UK real wages since the start of the Great Recession. What's more, the long US experience of stagnant real wages (median real weekly earnings in the United States in 2013 were at about the same level as in 1979) might...

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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.

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Unemployment and domestic violence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

unemployment - and these have had contrasting effects on the level of physical abuse. …

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Unemployment and domestic violence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

unemployment - and these have had contrasting effects on the level of physical abuse. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738417

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

Preferential Trade Agreements and the Labor Market

Ornelas, Emanuel - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Labor market consequences are at the forefront of most debates on the merits of trade liberalization. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) have become the primary form of trade liberalization in most countries, and several studies have shown that discriminatory and nondiscriminatory trade...

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Fiscal Multipliers over the Business Cycle

Michaillat, Pascal - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper illustrates why fiscal policy becomes more effective as unemployment rises in recessions. The theory is … based on the equilibrium unemployment model of Michaillat (forthcoming), in which jobs are rationed in recessions. Fiscal …; therefore fiscal policy reduces unemployment effectively. Formally the fiscal multiplier—the reduction in unemployment rate …

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