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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality …

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Youth unemployment : Déjà Vu?

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2010

This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data....

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What should be done about rising unemployment in the UK?

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2009

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as the current recessions deepens. It begins by trying to accurately date the beginning of the current downturn in the British economy, arguing that it is clear that the recession...

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Did the Thatcher Reforms Change British Labour Performance?

Blanchflower, David G. - 1993

union power; may have marginally increased employment and wage responsiveness to market conditions and may have increased … self-employment. They were accompanied by a substantial improvement in the labour market position of women. But the reforms … nonemployment to employment for men; a devastating loss in full-time jobs for male workers and produced substantial seemingly …

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