determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 … and wage differentials arise. Because unemployment benefits set a floor beneath the supply price of labor, as these …

The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose … level of excess demand associated with the measured unemployment rate. In particular, the evidence suggests that long …

incidence of inappropriate sales of payment protection insurance (PPI) by banks in particular came under intensive scrutiny from …

and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …

UK. changes in perceived job security are a factor in determining the change in wages. …

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …

Unemployment is an established predictor of psychological distress. Despite this robust relationship, the long …-term impact of unemployment on human welfare has been examined in relatively few studies. In this investigation we test the … association between the life-time duration of unemployment over a 34 year period from 1974 to 2008 and psychological distress at …