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Predicting the regional impact of a full employment policy in Canada: a Box-Jenkins approach

Clark, Gordon L. - 1979

employment policy in Canada: a Box-Jenkins approach', Economic Geography, 55(3), 213-226. … full employment policy in Canada. A brief critique of existing spatial labor market methods is presented. The focus of this … with Brechling-type models. It is argued, on the basis of the derived results, that a full employment policy would …

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The changing composition of regional employment

Clark, Gordon L. - 1984

Non-production workers are an increasing proportion of total manufacturing employment. Lower labor productivity has … causes changes in the composition of employment. Industry and geographical variations are, in fact, found in the significance … this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Clark, G. L. (1984). 'The changing composition of regional employment …

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Towards an alternative conception of job search theory and policy: information as an indeterminate process

Clark, Gordon L. - 1986

The theoretical heritage of job-search models is reconsidered, with a stress on their roots in neoclassical equilibrium theory. A different conception of the 'imperfect' information problem is proposed, namely what is called 'indeterminate' information. Competing economic and geographical models...

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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part 1: theory and evidence

Clark, Gordon L. - 1983

Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven … dominated by a long-run trend, and firms tend to adjust hours worked and only then employment in the short run. There are …

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Fluctuations and rigidities in local labor markets, part II: reinterpreting contract theory

Clark, Gordon L. - 1983

without unions, fluctuations in employment, hours worked, and money wages are unlike the patterns predicted by conventional …

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Why poor people do not move: job search behaviour and disequilibrium amongst local labor markets

Clark, Gordon L.; Whiteman, J. - 1983

A model of why people do not move between local labor markets is developed by means of a set of concepts derived from the job search and contracts literature. Emphasis is placed on how the environment, in which individuals behave, determines outcomes. It is argued that individuals act...

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A Hicksian model of local labor market turnover and wage determination

Clark, Gordon L. - 1981

Employers have a variety of reasons for attempting to stabilize turnover in their labour force. For example, specific skill requirements, the added costs of training inherent in hiring new workers, and the absolute demand for labour may stimulate firms to minimize labour turnover. One way of...

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Spatial labor markets and the distribution of transaction costs

Clark, Gordon L. - 1983

Incomplete information regarding the location of job offers, their contractual conditions, and tenure prospects typifies US labor markets. Crises of spatial coordination and the allocation of labor demand and supply, amongst other issues, are argued to result from such uncertainties....

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Allocating the costs of labor mobility

Clark, Gordon L. - 1985

which the substantive nature of capitalist employment contracts is emphasized. The actual agent of allocation is the …

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How do the last five years measure up on levelling up?

Farquharson, Christine; Milsom, Luke; Tahir, Imran; … - 2024

Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...

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