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The UK labour market and the 2008 - 2009 recession
Gregg, Paul; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2010
. Unemployment had reached its lowest levels for thirty years going in to the latest recession and has also remained relatively … subdued through the downturn, certainly compared to previous recessions. A combination of lower inflow rates into unemployment … seen before the recession. -- labour market ; recession ; unemployment ; wages …
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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe : a discussion of some recent developments and projections
Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg; Plane, Mathieu; Schmidt, … - 2001
covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …
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Estimating a Wage Curve for Britain 1973-1990
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 1998
Following Phillip's original work on the UK, applied researchon unemployment and wages has been dominated by the … rate of unemployment. This 'wage curve' is found to have an elasticity of approximately-0.1. Contrary to the Phillips Curve …
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Chapter 39 Urban labour markets
Crampton, Graham R. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1499-1557). 1999
The large research literature in urban labour market analysis is reviewed, with the emphasis ranging from attempts to model aggregate simultaneous interactions between residential and workplace location to more modern econometric work researching individual labour market behaviour. The job...
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The causal effect of teen motherhood on worklessness
Walker, Ian; Zhu, Yu - 2009
Teen motherhood continues to be high in the US and the UK relative to most other western European countries. While recent research has clarified how effective policies to reduce teen motherhood might be (Kearney (2009)), there remains little evidence that quantifies the causal effects of teen...
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Exploring the economic and social determinants of psychological and psychosocial health
Shields, Michael; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2001
Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment …
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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health
Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2021
Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well as acute and chronic physical health. Unemployment …
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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
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Reservation wages and the cost of unemployment
Jones, Stephen R. G. - 1988 - Rev
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Reservation wages and the cost of unemployment
Jones, Stephen R. - 1988
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