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Everyone's A Winner? Union Effects on Persistence in Private Sector Wage Settlements: Longitudinal Evidence from Britain
Brown, Donna; Ingram, Peter; Wadsworth, Jonathan - School of Economics, University of Surrey - 2004
unions on the dispersion and persistence of pay settlements over the medium term using a longitudinal data set covering …
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THE UK LABOUR MARKET AND THE 2008-9 RECESSION
Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - In: National Institute Economic Review 212 (2010) 1, pp. 61-61
and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages …
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The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession
Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
and fiscal policies during the recession, reductions in real producer wages and relatively buoyant real consumer wages …
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Jobs in the recession
Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
The recession of 2008-09 inflicted a larger cumulative loss of UK output than any of the previous post-war recessions, yet there has been a relatively low loss of employment, at least so far. Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth look for an explanation.
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Labour Markets in the Time of Coronavirus: Measuring Excess
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2020
No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270207
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Labour markets in the time of coronavirus: measuring excess
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2020
No matter the cause, recessions are usually accompanied by some combination of job loss, hiring freezes, wage cuts or hours reductions. In a rapidly evolving economic crisis there is a need for timely information to assess labour market performance and develop strategies to address the problems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256316
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On the relative gains to immigration: a comparison of the labour market position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
De Coulon, Augustin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745393
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On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
Wadsworth, Jonathan; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual's ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150995
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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745253
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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle … substitutes, so that an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled … time series of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763738