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Policy influences on unemployment: The European experience
(1999)
This paper considers the implications of four kinds of labour market policies for the 1980s rise in European unemployment: unemployment compensation, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation and ...
Customs Union and the Harris-Todaro Model with International Capital Mobility
(1992)
Traditional customs union theory concludes that trade creation enhances welfare. Thus, Yu's (1982) conclusion that trade creation may decrease welfare in the presence of general unemployment is an important observation. ...
Labour market policies and unemployment in the OECD
(1990)
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 programmes have the objective of reducing ...
Technological progress, job creation, and job destruction
(1998)
New technology embodied in capital equipment can be adopted either through destruction of existing jobs and the creation of new ones or by renovation, updating the job's equipment. Under the assumption that the destruction ...
Unemployment responses to 'skill-biased' technology shocks: The role of labour market policy
(1999)
Do skill-biased shocks that increase the spread of labour productivities, interacting with different policy regimes, explain the rise in unemployment in Europe relative to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s? The ...
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 ...