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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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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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