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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 …

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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and services and on the marketization of home production. The...

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