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New Strategies to Combat Long‐term Unemployment in the UK

Darling, Jill - In: International Journal of Manpower 13 (1992) 9, pp. 38-46

) based in Berlin to produce a transnational documentary dossier on “New Strategies to Combat Long‐term Unemployment in …

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Labour Market Changes in a Local Area, 1988‐1990

Lawrence, Peter; Rosenthal, Leslie - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 1, pp. 59-72

unemployed in a local area, over a two‐year period during which the unemployment rate fell by 40 per cent. The databases used …

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UK Training Policy and the Role of TECs

Hodgson, David - In: International Journal of Manpower 14 (1993) 8, pp. 3-16

Examines the roles, problems and potential of TECs in the UK, within the framework of the 1988 White Paper, Employment for the 1990s , as a catalyst for providing a world‐class workforce. TECs are seen to have faced problems internally as well as being subject to varying external constraints....

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Evaluations of Labour Market Policy in Sweden

Björklund, Anders - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 16-31

Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.

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Looking into the Black Box: Using Experimental Data to Find out How Training Works

Ham, John C.; LaLonde, Robert J. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 32-37

Considers the relative effectiveness of using experimental training programmes. Uses the US experience of programme evaluation to make two main points. First, many of the key questions concerning the effects of training cannot be answered using simple estimators, even in the presence of...

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Migration, Wages, Unemployment and the Housing Market –

Millington, Jim - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 9, pp. 89-133

Reviews a number of contributions to migration analysis. Discusses some of the rudiments of migration modelling before turning attention to specific applications. Pays particular attention to articles which have modelled the interaction between labour and housing markets.

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Migration equilibria/disequilibria and the natural rate of unemployment in a regional context

McGregor, P.G.; Swales, J.K.; Yin, Y.P. - In: International Journal of Manpower 16 (1995) 2, pp. 66-72

determined by real consumption wage and unemployment‐rate differentials. Provides a theoretical analysis of market clearing and …

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The differential impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration by income level

Hughes, James J.; Peoples, James; Perlman, Richard - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 2, pp. 18-33

While there is a vast literature on the effect of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration, in almost all of … higher the ratio of unemployment income to that of previous earnings, the longer is unemployment duration, but finds that … when pre‐unemployment income itself is considered, duration is positively related to that income. Supports the positive …

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The changing pattern of labour market activity in Great Britain

Butcher, Tim; Hutchinson, Gill - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 6/7, pp. 66-80

employment, unemployment and inactivity at two dates, 1984 and 1992, which were similar points in the economic cycle. Uses …

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The relationship between unemployment and crime

Elliott, Caroline; Ellingworth, Dan - In: International Journal of Manpower 17 (1996) 6/7, pp. 81-88

Various authors have tested for the presence of a relationship between unemployment and crime, employing time‐series or … test for the presence of a relationship between male unemployment and crime, using regional and area‐level crime data from … unemployment and the incidence, and prevalence, of both property and personal crimes. Area‐level data are also employed to test …

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