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Unemployment in Britain: a European success story

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

Unemployment in Britain has fallen from high European-style levels to US levels. I argue that the key reasons are first the reform of monetary policy, in 1993 with the adoption of inflation targeting and in 1997 with the establishment of the independent Monetary Policy Committee, and second the...

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The Beveridge curve, unemployment and wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s - preliminary version

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca; Ochel, Wolfgang; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper is an empirical analysis of unemployment patterns in the OECD countries from the 1960s to the 1990s, looking at the Beveridge Curves, real wages as well as unemployment directly. Our results indicate the following. First, the Beveridge Curves of all the countries except Norway and...

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Looking into the black box: a survey of the matching function

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but none is generally accepted as superior to all others. Instead, an aggregate...

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Union free-riding in Britain and New Zealand

Bryson, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their workplace has been rising in Britain and New Zealand. Social custom, union instrumentality, the fixed costs of joining, employee perceptions of management attitudes to unionization and employee problems at work...

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

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Employment patterns in OECD countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

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Patterns of work across the OECD

Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...

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Productivity growth and employment: theory and panel estimates

Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …

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WAGE FORMATION IN THE NORDIC COUNTRIES VIEWED FROM AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

JACKMAN, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1989

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STYLISED FACTS AND THE LABOUR DEMAND CURVE

NEWELL, A.; SYMONS, J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1988

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