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JOB SEARCH IN THICK MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY

Di Addario, Sabrina - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly …

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THE DESIGN OF UNEMPLOYMENT TRANSFERS:EVIDENCE FROM A DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL LIFECYCLEMODEL

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2010

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment,fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailedspecification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefitswhich depend on an individual's...

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UNEMPLOYMENT, PARTICIPATION AND MARKET SIZE

Keller, Godfrey; Roberts, Kevin; Stevens, Margaret - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007

We construct an equilibrium random matching model of the labour market, withendogenous market participation and a … general matching technology that allows formarket size effects: the job-finding rate for workers and the incentives for … participationchange with the level of unemployment. In comparison to standard modelswith constant returns to scale in matching, agent …

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DUAL TRACKS: PART-TIME WORK IN LIFE-CYCLEEMPLOYMENT FOR BRITISIH WOMEN

Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007

Almost half the women in work in the UK work part-time, but views conflict: does this support awoman’s career or is it a dead-end trap?Cohort data on labour market involvement to age 42 show highly varied pathways throughfull/part-time/non-employment. Econometric estimation confirms that...

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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT

Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...

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URBAN INSIDERS VERSUS RURAL OUTSIDERS:COMPLEMENTARITY OR COMPETITION IN CHINA’S URBANLABOUR MARKET?

Knight, John; Yueh, Linda - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004

In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour marketcompetition from rural-urban migrants. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urbanmigration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labourdemand outstripped that of the...

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THE CAPITAL STOCK AND EQUILIBRIUMUNEMPLOYMENT: A NEW THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

Kapadia, Sujit - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

By assuming Cobb-Douglas production technology, many well-known imperfectlycompetitive macroeconomic models of the labour market (e.g. Layard, Nickell andJackman, 1991) imply that equilibrium unemployment is independent of the capitalstock. This paper introduces a new notion of capacity into the...

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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence

Baker, Dean; Glyn, Andrew; Howell, David; Schmitt, John - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2003

This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are...

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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE LABOUR MARKET INCHINA

Knight, John; Yueh, Linda Y. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2002

Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...

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Japanese Labour Markets: Can we Expect Significant Change?

Rebick, Marcus - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 1999

I examine recent changes in labour markets and employment practices in Japan. I find little evidence that Japan is converging towards an Anglo-American type labour market. Mobility rates continue to be low, and there is little indication that this will change greatly in the future. Large firms...

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