This Paper challenges the consensus on the nature of unemployment dynamics in Britain. We show that the argument that changes in unemployment arise mostly from changes in the duration of unemployment (rather than in the event of becoming unemployed) is flawed. In fact, while shocks to the...

[fre] Aujourd’hui, l’analyse de l’évolution du chômage ne peut se faire sans prendre en compte sa nature essentiellement dynamique qui en fait un état de transition sur le marché de l’emploi. Ainsi, une analyse des caractéristiques du chômage au Royaume-Uni montre que les taux de...

We analyse the initial impact of a major school admission reform in Brighton and Hove. The new system incorporated a lottery for oversubscribed places and new catchment areas. We examine the post-reform changes in school composition. We locate the major winners and losers in terms of the quality...