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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries

Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

intermediate rates have been driven by changes in regional employment, only partly offset by labour force changes. Regions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884644

Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

geography models of how external trade affects the spatial distribution of employment. Our results suggest that accession … increase employment while increased import competition decreases employment. …

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The port geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Economic Community, using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the United Kingdom’s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit...

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The spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that are fast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present...

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The geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed data set that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK¿s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit and commodity. Our results...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071343

Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : the effect of overtime, payroll taxes, and labor policies and costs on companies' product output and countries' GDP

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as the overall economy. …

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : overtime penalties, payroll taxes, and other labor policies alter costs and change employment and output

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as in the overall economy. …

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well as, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from...

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012425

The effect of public sector employment on local labour markets

Faggio, Giulia; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local … Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector … employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each …

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