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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 ...
Macroeconomic adjustment and poverty in selected industrial countries
(1991)
The business cycle affects the incidence of poverty, as shown by evidence from Australia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Many of the poor in these countries are outside the labor market, and transfers ...
Skill shortages and structural unemployment in Britain: a (mis) matching approach
(Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Invokes microeconomic evidence on the nature of British unemployment and its causes, and investigates the thesis that much of its increase during the late 1970s and early 1980s can be attributed to the mismatch of different ...