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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator
Gordon, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by Fielding (1989). It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
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Ambition, human capital acquisition and the metropolitan escalator
Gordon, Ian R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper examines the relation between ambition, as a form of dynamic human capital, and the escalator role of high-order metropolitan regions, as originally identified by A. J. Fielding. It argues that occupational progression in such places particularly depends on concentrations both of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125904
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Monopsony and the efficiency of labour market interventions
Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
the minimum wage, trade unions, unemployment insurance, progressive income taxation and restrictions on labour contracts û …
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Creative destruction with on-the-job search
Michau, Jean-Baptiste - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744813
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Labor market institutions around the world
Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744832
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744859
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The Beveridge curve
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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Unemployment dynamics with international capital mobility
Azariadis, Costas; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We study the response of domestic unemployment rates to shocks in total factor productivity for economies with high … by developed nations in the last twenty years, substantially amplify the impact on the domestic unemployment rate of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744954
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A picture of job insecurity facing British men
Nickell, Stephen; Jones, Tracy; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745282
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A theory of countercyclical government multiplier
Michaillat, Pascal - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
I develop a New Keynesian model in which a type of government multiplier doubles when unemployment rises from 5 percent … unemployment is high, the increase in tightness and resulting crowding-out are small. …
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