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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2002

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...

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Crime and Unemployment in the EU : The Role of Labour Market Policies and Shadow Economy

Goulas, Eleftherios; Karidis, Socrates; Tzivanakis, Nikolaos - 2023

We examine the crime-unemployment relationship in 26 EU countries and the possibility of potential asymmetries … when active labour market policies are used to tackle unemployment. To avoid being misled about the effectiveness of crime … fighting policy where a strong link between unemployment and crime cannot be found, policymakers should recognise and further …

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A Critical Evaluation of Competing Conceptualizations of Informal Employment : Some Lessons from England

Williams, Colin - 2015

This paper evaluates critically the validity of the competing conceptualizations of informal employment that variously read such work as a leftover of a previous mode of production, a by-product of, alternative or complement to formal employment. Until now, the common tendency has been for...

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Re-Reading Entrepreneurship in the Hidden Economy : Commercial or Social Entrepreneurs?

Williams, Colin; Nadin, Sara - 2013

Since the turn of the millennium, a small but growing stream of the entrepreneurship literature has drawn attention to how a large proportion of entrepreneurs start-up their enterprises operating in the hidden economy on a wholly or partially off-the-books basis. This paper evaluates critically...

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Rationales for Outsourcing Domestic Services to Off-the-Books Workers

Williams, Colin - 2013

PurposeThis paper evaluates critically the assumption that the main reason for acquiring domestic services from the off-the-books economy is to save money. MethodologyData is reported from an Internet survey of 5,500 people living in households with one or more members in employment in the city...

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Evaluating the Magnitude of the Shadow Economy : A Direct Survey Approach

Williams, Colin - 2013

PurposeUntil now, in the absence of direct survey data, economists have had to rely on indirect methods that employ proxy indicators to evaluate the size of the shadow economy. In this paper, however, the results of the first direct survey of business perceptions of the magnitude of the shadow...

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Evaluating Competing Theories of the Shadow Economy : Some Lessons from an English Locality

Williams, Colin - 2013

This paper evaluates critically the contrasting theories of the nature of the shadow economy that variously read this sector as a leftover of pre-capitalism, a by-product of a new emergent form of capitalism, a complement to formal employment or an alternative to the formal economy. Until now,...

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Spatial Variations in the Hidden Enterprise Culture : Some Lessons from England

Williams, Colin - 2013

Despite the growing recognition that many businesses start-up trading on a partially or wholly off-the-books basis, there has been little investigation of whether the prevalence and character of this hidden enterprise culture varies spatially. The aim of this paper is to start to fill that gap....

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Modelling low pay transition probabilities, accounting for panel attrition, non-response, and initial conditions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2004

We model annual low pay transition probabilities taking account of three potentially endogenous selections: two sample drop-out mechanisms (panel attrition, non-employment) and "initial conditions" (base-year low pay status). This model, and variants that ignore one or more of these selection...

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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...

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