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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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Balanced growth with structural change

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor reallocation, and constant aggregate growth path. The conditions are weak restrictions on the...

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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...

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Can basic entrepreneurship transform the economic lives of the poor?

Bandiera, Oriana; Das, Narayan; Burgess, Robin; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...

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Productivity growth, knowledge flows and spillovers

Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan E.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows often argued, especially by policy-makers, as important, such as within the...

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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

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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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A picture of European unemployment: success and failure

Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …

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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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HYSTERESIS AND THE JAPANESE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION

BRUNELLO, G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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