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THE CAPITAL STOCK AND EQUILIBRIUMUNEMPLOYMENT: A NEW THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

Kapadia, Sujit - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005

labour market (e.g. Layard, Nickell andJackman, 1991) imply that equilibrium unemployment is independent of the capitalstock …

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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence

Baker, Dean; Glyn, Andrew; Howell, David; Schmitt, John - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2003

This paper provides a critical view of the cross country literature on the impact of labour market institutions and … policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor …

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Duopolistic Hiring and Sales Competition- A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Güth, Werner; Hoppe, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

Two firms compete on a sales market as well as in hiring labor. The duopolists'sales levels depend on their workforce. There are two each of two typesof workers, mobile and immobile, with differing effort costs. An immobileworker's eort costs are lower when he is employed by the local firm,...

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Wages, Length of Relationship and Bargaining Power:An experimental study in a world of complete contracts

Dittrich, Dennis A. V. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2004

To explain potential sources of wage rigidity this article analyzes a model of reciprocalkindness applied to a repeated ultimatum game with changing and nonzeroconflict payoffs. The model is also tested in a laboratory experiment. The resultsare compatible with the rentsharingapproach to wage...

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DUAL TRACKS: PART-TIME WORK IN LIFE-CYCLEEMPLOYMENT FOR BRITISIH WOMEN

Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2007

Almost half the women in work in the UK work part-time, but views conflict: does this support awoman’s career or is it a dead-end trap?Cohort data on labour market involvement to age 42 show highly varied pathways throughfull/part-time/non-employment. Econometric estimation confirms that...

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