In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …

. About 44 percent of the non-recipients had at least some college-level education, while only half as many mothers receiving …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

risk of persisting unemployment, however, remain specific problems of the elderly. Government sponsored programs to support …

historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

(PEA) have longer unemployment spells than those choosing alternative search methods. Yet, in some well-designed U …-experimental studies may be biased toward finding a positive relationship between unemployment spell duration and PEA use because they … unsuccessfully and a period of unemployment has elapsed. An analysis of U.K. microdata with information on the timing of PEA use in …

Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …

This study analyzes the effects of additional interconnection on welfare and competition in the Irish electricity … market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in … competition in Ireland, the less competitive of the two markets. Finally, it is unlikely that private investors will pay for the …