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Resurrecting the Participation Margin
Ebell, Monique - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve. This paper presents a calibrated model which succeeds at generating … countercyclical unemployment and a negatively-sloped Beveridge curve despite the presence of a participation margin. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016888
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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United … that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150972
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Des hommes malades du chômage ? Genre et (ré-)assignation identitaire au Royaume-Uni
Angeloff, Tania - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
In the early 2000s, nearly two million men – and less than one million women – were eligible for disability benefits in Britain. Initiated at the beginning of the 1980s, the Incapacity Benefit (IB) social welfare system perceived and treated these recipients as « disabled adults ». This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073699
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Explaining Job Polarization in Europe: The Roles of Technology, Globalization and Institutions
Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
estimates a simple model to capture the effects of technology, globalization, institutions and product demand effects on the … attenuate the polarizing impact of routinization and that differences or changes in wage-setting institutions play little role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643554
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Informal Sector Versus Informal Contracts in Nairobi, Kenya
Bocquier, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706872
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The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment
Hussain, Mohammad Azhar; Wolbers, Maarten; Layte, Richard; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708600
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L’Emploi, le Chômage et les Conditions d’Activité en République Démocratique du Congo : Principaux résultats de la phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3 2004-2005
Makabu Ma Nkenda, Thimotée; Mba, Martin; Torelli, Constance - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074347
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Le marché du travail en République Démocratique du Congo en 2012 : Principaux résultats de la Phase 1 de l’Enquête 1-2-3
Kankwanda, Grégoire; Makabu Ma Nkenda, Timothée; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193766
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A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016867
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Creative Destruction with On-the-Job Search
Michau, Jean-Baptiste - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 … search process than the unemployed. Thus, we show that, rather than contributing to unemployment, creative destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150991