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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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The Relative Economic Importance of Academic, Psychological and Behavioural Attributes Developed on Chilhood

Feinstein, L - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

-dimensional process. Age ten conduct disorder predicts male adult unemployment particularly well but it is self-esteem that predicts male …

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A Picture of Job Insecurity Facing British Men

Jones, Patricia Tracy; Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

becoming unemployed, the costs of unemployment in terms of real wages losses and the probability that the continuously employed …

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The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?

Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

on the model's failure to match the observed cyclical volatility of unemployment. Job creation in the model is influenced … elasticities are consistent with the evidence. Therefore explanations of the unemployment volatility puzzle have to preserve the … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

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