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Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding across countries. The position of the economy on the curve gives an idea as to the state of the labour market. The modern underlying theory is the search and matching model, with...

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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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Job and wage mobility in a search model with non-compliance (exemptions) with the minimum wage

Eckstein, Zvi; Ge, Suqin; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We use a simple job search model to explain the doubling of mean hourly earnings of white males, and the five-fold increase in their variance, during the first 18 years of labor market experience. For this purpose we embody minimum wage regulations and imperfect compliance in a job search model...

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, based on aggregate matching functions, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. We estimate a semi-structural model on a British sample of unemployed people, testing for scale...

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Employee stock purchase plans – gift or incentive? evidence from a multinational corporation

Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...

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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus

Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...

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Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

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Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Chris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in...

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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

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