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Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market

This book aims to provide a basis for better unemployment policy: showing how the lessons learned from experience and theory can be applied to greatly reduce the waste and misery of high unemployment. The book surveys th...Read more...

Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman

1 August 2005

CentrePiece article

Tackling unemployment: Europe's successes and failures

Why has unemployment fallen in some European countries but not in others? To answer this question, Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell and Richard Jackman revisit their landmark analysis of macroeconomic performance and the ...Read more...

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell

February 2005

CentrePiece article

Reform in Russia. A good news story

CentrePiece article

EMU: convergence or divergence?

CentrePiece article

Do return and unemployment go hand in hand?

CEP discussion paper

European versus US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for skill?

According to Paul Krugman, 'the European unemployment problem and the US inequality problem are two sides of the same coin'. In other words, both continents have had the same shift in demand towards skill; in the US rela...Read more...

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard, Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

June 1997

CEP discussion paper

Labour Market Policy and the Reallocation of Labour Across Sectors

This paper investigates the extent of labour market allocation across broad industrial sectors in the transition of economies of Eastern Europe since 1989. It offers various measures of the magnitude of labour misallocat...Read more...

Richard Jackman and C Pauna

March 1997

CEP discussion paper

Combatting Unemployment: Is Flexibility Enough?

Our conclusions are the most important influences on unemployment come from the following (i) The longer unemployment benefits are available the longer unemployment lasts. Similarly, higher levels of benefits generate hi...Read more...

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard and Stephen Nickell

March 1996

CEP discussion paper

The Labour Market in Bulgaria

The fall in output and employment, and the rise in unemployment, during the transition in Bulgaria have been exceptionally severe. This paper examines possible causes, including the role of the financial stabilisation pa...Read more...

I Beleva, Richard Jackman and M Nenova-Amar

October 1995

CEP discussion paper

Economic Polices

This paper discusses employment policy in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe. It argues that unemployment has arisen as a consequence of economy-wide shocks rather than as part of the process of rea...Read more...

Richard Jackman

October 1995

CEP discussion paper

Regional Migration in Britain

This paper investigates the determinants of regional wages in Britain using annual data from the New Earnings Survey over the period 1974-1989. Separate wage equations are estimated for male and female workers, for manua...Read more...

Richard Jackman and S Savouri

September 1995

CEP discussion paper

Unemployment and Wage Inequality in OECD Countries

This paper surveys the main changes in the level of employment and in the wage structure in OECD countries during the last two decades. Despite a slowdown in the growth rates of output and productivity, employment has co...Read more...

Richard Jackman

April 1995

CEP discussion paper

What Can Active Labour Market Policy Do?

During the 1980s, two dimensions in particular of the unemployment problem have been a source of increasing concern for policy-makers in Europe. One id the increasing rate of structural change and the resulting decline i...Read more...

Richard Jackman

March 1995

CEP discussion paper

Mass Unemployment: International Experience and Lessons for Policy

While variations across countries in the experiences of mass unemployment have been extensively analysed, the even more striking variation over time is much less well understood. This paper argues that the capacity of a ...Read more...

Richard Jackman

June 1993

CEP discussion paper

Regional Migration versus Regional Commuting: The Identification of Housing and Employment Flows

This paper examines whether the impact of house prices and of labour market variables on migration differs as between contiguous and non-contiguous regions. We find that house price elasticites are increasingly in the le...Read more...

Richard Jackman and S Savouri

January 1992

CEP discussion paper

Regional Wage Determination in Great Britain

Richard Jackman and S Savouri

July 1991

CEP discussion paper

Regional Migration in Britain: An Analysis of Gross Flows using NHS Central Register Data

The hiring function represents the process whereby job seekers and vacancies are matched. Migration can be seen as a special case of hiring in which a job seeker in region I is matched to a job in region j. As a conseque...Read more...

Richard Jackman and S Savouri

March 1991

CEP discussion paper

Labour Market Policies and Unemployment in the OECD

The massive increase in unemployment throughout the OECD since the early 1970s has led governments in many countries to introduce, or to expand, labour market policies such as training schemes, employment subsidies, publ...Read more...

Richard Jackman, Christopher A. Pissarides and S Savouri

November 1990

CEP discussion paper

Mismatch: A Framework for Thought

The rise in European unemployment is often blamed on increased mismatch between labour supply and demand- either by age, skill or region. To investigate this, we first develop models to explain differences in unemploymen...Read more...

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard and S Savouri

May 1990

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