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The Science and Technology Labor Force : The Value of Doctorate Holders and Development of Professional Careers

Gokhberg, Leonid (ed.); Shmatko, Natalia (ed.); … - 2016

Foreword -- Part I: The International Value of Doctorate Degrees on the Labor Market -- Part II: Doctorate Holders: Employment Outcome and Mobility -- Part III: Human Resources in Science and Technology and Their Professional Carrers -- Part IV: Conclusions.

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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market

Tabasso, Domenico - 2011

This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...

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The Crisis for Young People : Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare

Green, Andy - 2017

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides...

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Economics of the Labour Market : Unemployment and the Costs of Unemployment

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2016

The global crisis has led to dramatic increases in unemployment rates over most of the countries of the OECD. This book provides alternative explanations of this phenomenon. Junankar begins with surveys of the labour market: labour demand, labour supply, and labour force participation. He argues...

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Britain, Europe and EMU

Eltis, Walter - 2000

This book shows how the transformation of Britain's economic performance has been based on control of public expenditure, improving competitiveness, co-operative industrial relations and a large favourable contribution from inward investment. In contrast, Europe has suffered from rising...

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Volunteering and Social Inclusion : Interrelations between Unemployment and Civic Engagement in Germany and Great Britain

Strauß, Susanne - 2008

interrelations in Germany and Great Britain. On the basis of household panel data, she answers questions such as: Does job loss lead …

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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Is there an income gradient in child health? It depends whom you ask

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - 2010

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially...

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How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2007

are asked about the household total rather than own income alone. Data are typically banded, implying a loss of … household income in the BSA - with those in two other much larger UK surveys that measure income in much greater detail. Second … household: total income in respondents' households is unobserved. We therefore examine the relationship between individual and …

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Vignette equivalence and response consistency: The case of job satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M. S.; … - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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