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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...

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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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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe : Preference versus Salience

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...

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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although...

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Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2003

The international labour market has not been ?globalised? to the same degree over the last 40 years as have international markets for goods and capital. Immigration policies in developed economies clearly hinder the mobility of labour. But how much difference does it actually make? This paper...

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The Political Economy of Assisted Immigration : Australia 1860-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a … to Australia reduced the need for assisted migration, slumps in the UK increased the take-up of assisted passages …

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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …

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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...

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Competition and the retreat from collective bargaining

Brown, William Arthur; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - In: The evolution of the modern workplace, (pp. 22-47). 2009

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