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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764644
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078744
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861518
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861854
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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers : Evidence from Poland
Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2023
economy is poorly developed, institutions to support migrants are weak and access to migrant networks is limited to several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348146
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The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland
Albinowski, Maciej - 2020
Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland...
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The Global Distribution of Routine and Non-Routine Work
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830647
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142
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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017
This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957477
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777461