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Inactivity Among Prime Age Men in the UK

Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

unemployment rates are much the same. Furthermore, inactivity is strongly concentrated among the unskilled and those suffering from …Inactivity rates among prime-age men in the UK have risen by at least five times since the early 1970s whereas … a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …

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Employment Patterns in OECD Countries

Nickell, Stephen; Nunziata, Luca - Centre for Economic Performance, 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...

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Lousy and Lovely Jobs: the Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses...

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We Can Work It Out: the Impact of Technological Change on the Demand for Low Skill Workers

Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that wehumans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects boththe absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour.In...

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