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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Forth, John - 2016
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace employee representation across Europe or the reasons for this. We use a workplace survey covering 27...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989842
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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents
Francesconi, Marco - 2008
existing empirical literature on the impacts of welfare reform, and discuss the implications of our results for policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768161
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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
White, Michael R. - 2016
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS have a non-linear association with employees' overall job attitude, with a positive association...
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation: Announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard; Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, … - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282467
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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew; Green, Colin P. - 2022
A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406845
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
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Why so unhappy? : The effects of unionisation on job satisfaction
Bryson, Alex (contributor); Cappellari, Lorenzo (contributor) - 2005
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002738380
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation : Transitions between States and Their Determinants - A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Addison, John T. - 2009
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155159