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What are the long-term effects of UI? Evidence from the UK JSA reform

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both administrative and labor force survey data. We find that the...

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Unemployment in the great recession

Pissarides, Christopher A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper studies the responses of unemployment in Germany, the United States and Britain to the Great Recession of 2008-09 by making use of Beveridge curve analysis, and in the entire OECD with other techniques. It is shown that Britain suffered from recession but no structural problems; the...

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The ins and outs of European unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Inequality and unemployment in a global economy

Helpman, Elhanan; Itshoki, Oleg; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper develops a new framework for examining the distributional consequences of international trade that incorporates firm and worker heterogeneity, search and matching frictions in the labor market, and screening of workers by firms. Larger firms pay higher wages and exporters pay higher...

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Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric; De Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

effects via FDI, but only for economic rights and only in middle-income countries. Globalization does seem to open the door …Previous studies of globalization’s effects on women’s rights have mostly focused on employment and wage ratios, but … general measures of a country’s openness to trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Does it, however, also matter who one …

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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?

Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on...

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Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households were more likely than US households to own a personal computer (PC). After...

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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia

Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...

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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e.g. Dustmann, Fabbri and Preston, 2005) have failed to find any...

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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?

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

At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in the world. The targets that were set then are unlikely to be achieved. European countries need to concentrate on change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service...

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