This paper provides the first estimates of the determinants of the duration of employer search in the UK. We model duration until a vacancy is either successfully filled or withdrawn from the market. The econometric techniques deal with multiple vacancies and unobserved heterogeneity (dependent...

Recent research has attempted to explain the impact of changes in union bargaining on the U.K. productivity miracle of the 1980s. A central part of these explanations is the concept of 'effort' or 'working conditions' as an observable component of negotiations. After reviewing the evidence, this...