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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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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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Marginal Employment and the Demand forHeterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence froma Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginalemployment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hoursusing a new panel data set...

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The Employment of Mothers : Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara - 2011

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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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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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2020

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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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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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed : Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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