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The reservation wage curve : evidence from the UK
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2014
enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412654
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The Reservation Wage Curve : Evidence from the UK
Brown, Sarah - 2014
enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve' …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045839
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Friends' networks and job finding rates
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2011
Social interactions have important consequences for labour market outcomes. Yet the growing literature has relied on indirect definitions of networks. We present the first evidence based on direct information on friends' networks. We address issues of correlated effects with instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288901
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775710
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On Regional Unemployment : An Empirical Examination of the Determinants of Geographical Differentials in the UK
Korobilis, Dimitris; Gilmartin, Michelle - 2011
This paper considers the determinants of regional disparities in unemployment rates for the UK regions at NUTS-II level …. We use a mixture panel data model to describe unemployment differentials between heterogeneous groups of regions. The … results indicate the existence of two clusters of regions in the UK economy, characterised by high and low unemployment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186165
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Regionale Arbeitsmärkte in der „Großen Rezession“ : Dynamik regionaler Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Krisenjahr 2009
Reiner, Christian - 2010
Regional labour markets in the „Great Recession“: The evolution of regional unemployment rates in Germany, France and … explain the spatially unequal development of unemployment rates at the regional level?”. Using a cross‐section data‐set with … the percentage point increase of regional unemployment rates between 2008 and 2009 as the dependent variable and a set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731773
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The evolution of catholic-protestant labour market inequality in Northern Ireland, 1983-2014
Rowland, Neil; McVicar, Duncan; Shuttleworth, Ian - 2018
one very well-known differential - the Catholic/ Protestant unemployment differential in Northern Ireland - has largely … signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the introduction of fair employment legislation, growth in hidden unemployment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880336
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254253
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Bounding the causal effect of unemployment on mental health : nonparametric evidence from four countries
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
An important, yet unsettled, question in public health policy is the extent to which unemployment causally impacts … fairly weak and partially testable assumptions, our paper shows that unemployment has a significant negative effect on mental … short periods of unemployment. Public policy should hence focus on early prevention of mental health problems among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636341
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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118755