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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Worker-Job Matches, Job Mobility, and Real Wage Cyclicality

Hart, Robert A. - 2003

Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data from 1980 to 2001, this paper examines male and female real wage cyclicality. Estimation is undertaken separately for job stayers and job movers. A unique data advantage compared to earlier studies is that movers are defined by job changes both...

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The Spot Market Matters : Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2005

contracts with costless worker mobility are not prevalent in Britain. …

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...

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The Spot Market Matters: Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

contracts with costless worker mobility are not prevalent in Britain. …

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Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Hart, Robert A. - 2000

On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...

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Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain

Hart, Robert A.; Malley, James R.; Woitek, Ulrich - 2001

In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a distorted picture of wage cyclicality. Here, we employ frequency domain methods that allow us...

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Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression

Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002

combined to influence real wage growth. By contrast, the external effects of unemployment and replacement rates had much less …

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Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …

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Piecework versus timework in British wartime engineering

Hart, Robert A. - 2005

The British engineering industry experienced extreme production and employment pressures during the rearmament period that preceded the Second World War and in the early war years. Did it react by placing a greater emphasis on incentive-compatible payment methods? This paper examines the...

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