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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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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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