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An expenditure-based estimate of Britain's black economy
(1989)
We estimate the size of Britain's black economy (defined narrowly as unreported taxable income) by using income and expenditure data drawn from the 1982 Family Expenditure Survey. Our working assumptions are that all income ...
On-the-job search. Some empirical evidence from Britain
(1994)
This paper considers evidence from the Labour Force Survey concerning job search by employed workers. The unconditional probability of observing on-the-job search is decomposed into the product of two constituent probabilities ...
Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State
(2008)
We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of ...
Unemployment and the inter-regional mobility of labour
(1989)
In this paper we examine the relation between unemployment and the interregional migration of labour. First, the status of a worker affects mobility: an unemployed worker is more likely to move than an employed one. Second, ...
Who are the unemployed?
(1990)
The impact of TFP growth on steady-state unemployement
(Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2005)