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Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS

Addison, John T.; Heywood, John S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2001

In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to both recent U.S. research and British work using information from the earlier workplace surveys, we...

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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective

Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many developing countries, China can be characterized as...

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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008

The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...

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Workplace disability diversity and job-related well-being in Britain: a WERS2004 based analysis

Haile, Getinet A. - 2009

This paper attempts to establish empirically whether there is a link between workplace disability and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain, I employ alternative econometric techniques to account for unobserved workplace...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269118

How does retirement affect health?

Behncke, Stefanie - 2009

the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, non-parametric matching methods can be …

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Retire later or work harder?

Bell, David N.F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2010

We compare two policies of increasing British state pension provision: (a) increase the pensionable age of men and women, (b) maintain the existing retirement age but require older workers to work longer per-period hours. There are reasons for policy makers to give serious consideration to the...

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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn G.; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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