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becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …
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This paper is concerned with the relationship between wages and unemployment. Using UK regions and individuals as the … unemployment and wages or wage changes? Second, can we identify the relationship completely by looking at regional wages and … regional unemployment or do regional wages depend on aggregate unemployment as well? Third, are wages influenced only by the …
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-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …
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Overall, collective bargaining coverage has dropped by around fourteen percentage points. This paper investigates the causes and consequences of the decline in collective bargaining in Britain between 1990 and 1998. One in three workplaces that practiced collective bargaining in 1990 had...
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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...
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This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector employment. However, public sector employment does affect...
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The growth of “global cities” in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarization, including the increase in low-paid service jobs. Although held to be untrue for European cities at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New...
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unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This … contracts are affected in the same way by the firing costs and the flexibility of wages. …
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finds equivocal effects on other aggregate outcomes, such as employment and unemployment. Given weaknesses in the …
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We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six … years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school-leaving age to …
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