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A test between unemployment theories using matching data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

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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Resurrecting the participation margin

Ebell, Monique - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which does indeed … generate countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …

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Short job tenures and firing taxes in the search theory of unemployment

Gkionakis, Vasileios - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper studies the effects of firing taxes on the job destruction rate, when probation period - or temporary contract - policies are implemented in an otherwise exogenous job separation search model. It is shown that contrary to conventional wisdom, firing taxes can amplify the job turnover...

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Unemployment and hours of work: the North Atlantic divide revisited

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (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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You can't always get what you want: the impact of the jobseeker's allowance

Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1996 the UK made major changes to its welfare system for the support of the unemployed with the introduction of the Jobseeker’s Allowance. This tightened the work search requirements needed for eligibility for benefit. It resulted in large flows out of claimant status, but, this paper...

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Fixed-term contracts and unemployment: an efficiency wage analysis

Guell, Maia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

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Can labour supply explain the rise in unemployment and intergroup wage inequality in the OECD?

Wasmer, E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

. Disaggregation by gender is necessary. Endogeneity of participation levels with respect to unemployment is treated in two ways, by … unemployment cannot be rejected. …

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The class of '81: the effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Rees, Hedley; Shearer, Arran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …

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