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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David H. - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the UK?

Bell, David N.F. - 2009

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

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What Makes a Young Entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on youngpeople´s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, thepaper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and theCurrent Population Survey in the United States...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...

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Young People and the Great Recession

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … using microdata. We argue that there is convincing evidence that the effects of unemployment when young impose costs on … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …

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'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement : An International Analysis

Dorn, David - 2007

Recent literature makes a distinction between quot;voluntaryquot; and quot;involuntaryquot; early retirement, where quot;involuntaryquot; early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference for leisure relative to work. This paper analyzes quot;voluntaryquot; and...

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The Impact of the Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

inflationary pressures and to lower the natural rate of unemployment …

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Untangling Trade and Technology : Evidence from Local Labor Markets

Autor, David H. - 2015

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor markets whose initial industry composition exposes them to rising Chinese import competition experience significant falls in employment, particularly in manufacturing and among...

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