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A year in the UK labour market: what's happened over the coronavirus pandemic? Jonathan Wadsworth
April 2021
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Tags: covid-19; social mobility; labour market; jobs; housing

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Beyond income inequality: factoring in non-monetary rewards Andrew Clark, Maria Cotofan and Richard Layard
April 2021
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Tags: social mobility; wages; equality; labour markets; wellbeing

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Working from home is revolutionising the UK labour market Nick Bloom, Paul Mizen and Shivani Taneja
March 2021
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Tags: covid-19; labour; labour markets; technology; growth

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Work and children: is the motherhood penalty in Spain too high for working women? Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela
March 2021
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Tags: employment; wages; equality; gender; labour markets

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LSE Festival 2021 | Many of us will return to offices - but not for the whole week Daniela Scur
March 2021
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Tags: covid-19; employment; technological change; labour markets

CEP Covid-19 analysis
Covid-19 and the self-employed - ten months into the crisis Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura
March 2021
Paper No' CEPCOVID-19-019:
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Tags: self-employment; covid-19; shocks; labour markets; seiss; self-isolation; social insurance

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Will coronavirus cause a big city exodus? Max Nathan and Henry Overman
March 2021
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CentrePiece 26 (1) Spring 2021

Tags: covid-19; economic geography; housing markets; innovation; labour

An earlier version of this article was published by the Economics Observatory

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in brief... Losses in lockdown: jobs, income, education and mental health Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela March 2021
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CentrePiece 26 (1) Spring 2021

Tags: covid-19; inequalities; labour markets; negative earnings

This article summarises 'Labour market shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and child outcomes' by Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, CEP Covid-19 analysis No. 15.

CEP discussion paper
Unequal learning and labour market losses in the crisis: consequences for social mobility Lee Elliot Major, Andrew Eyles and Stephen Machin February 2021
Paper No' CEPDP1748:
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JEL Classification: I24; J63; J21; J62 I24; J63; J21; J62 I24; J63; J21; J62

Tags: learning loss; labour market loss; crisis; social mobility; covid-19

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New incentives for businesses to train their employees are needed for economic recovery from COVID-19 Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura January 2021
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Tags: covid-19; skills; education; employment; labour markets; labor markets

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What happened when parents lost their jobs during lockdown? Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela December 2020
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Tags: covid-19; education; skills; employment; unemployment; labour markets; wellbeing

CEP Covid-19 analysis
Labour market shocks during the Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and child outcomes Claudia Hupkau, Ingo Isphording, Stephen Machin and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela December 2020
Paper No' CEPCOVID-19-015:
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Tags: covid-19; inequalities; labour markets; negative earnings

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Long-Term Unemployment and the Covid Downturn Jonathan Wadsworth
November 2020
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Tags: covid-19; unemployment; labour; labor; larbour markets; labor markets

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Work, care, and gender across UK lockdowns Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo
November 2020
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Tags: covid-19; gender; wellbeing; equality; labour; labor; labour markets; labor markets

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1 Million Missing Immigrants (And 1.2 Million More UK-Born) Jonathan Wadsworth
November 2020
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Tags: immigration; covid-19; labour markets; labor markets; labour; labor

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How lockdowns have reversed traditional gender roles in some UK households and further entrenched them in others Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo November 2020
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Tags: covid-19; labour markets; labor markets; employment; gender; equality

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Who's being made redundant during COVID? Who is staying at work. And is it any different from usual? Jonathan Wadsworth
November 2020
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Tags: employment; covid-19; labour markets

CEP Covid-19 analysis
Covid-19 and the self-employed: six months into the crisis Jack Blundell, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura
November 2020
Paper No' CEPCOVID-19-012:
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Tags: covid-19; self-employment; labour markets

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Redundancies and the labour market under Covid. Has furlough helped? And other related things you may have missed Jonathan Wadsworth November 2020
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Tags: employment; covid-19; labour markets; wages; public policy

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In brief... Monopsony in labour markets: what it is, why it matters Alan Manning
November 2020
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Tags: monopsony; wages; labour markets; employment

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UK Labour Market Under COVID Part 3: Layoffs, Hiring & Wages Jonathan Wadsworth
September 2020
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Tags: labour market; covid-19; wages; furlough; recession

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What's Happening to the Labour Market under COVID-19? Part 2 Jonathan Wadsworth
September 2020
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Tags: labour market; covid-19

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What’s Happening to the UK Labour Market under COVID-19? Looking for signs of excess and what it shows (so far). Part 1 Jonathan Wadsworth September 2020
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Tags: labour market; covid-19

CEP discussion paper
The crisis and job guarantees in urban India Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin
September 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1719:
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JEL Classification: J46; J68; L52; P25

Tags: job guarantee; india; urban labour markets; job vignettes; covid-19

CEP Covid-19 analysis
What can previous recessions tell us about the Covid-19 downturn? Brian Bell, Mihai Codreanu and Stephen Machin
August 2020
Paper No' CEPCOVID-19-007:
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Tags: labour markets; recessions; seiss; covid-19; employment

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Dream jobs: managers in internationally active firms have higher lifetime wages Giordano Mion, Luca David Opromolla and Gianmarco Ottaviano July 2020
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Tags: productivity; innovation; wages; labour markets; labor markets; labor; labour

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Covid-19 and the work patterns of men and women Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo
July 2020
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CentrePiece 25 (2) Summer 2020

Tags: covid-19; work patterns; labour market; gender

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How a job guarantee scheme can avoid the slide into long-term unemployment Richard Layard
May 2020
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Tags: covid-19; wellbeing; employment; labour markets; labor markets; labor; labour

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COVID-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo
April 2020
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Tags: covid-19; labour markets; labor markets; labour; labor; gender; education; childcare; uk

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Prepare for large wage cuts if you are younger and work in a small firm Brian Bell, Nicholas Bloom, Jack Blundell and Luigi Pistaferri April 2020
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Tags: wages; labour markets; labour; labor markets; labor; equality; inequality; gender

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Technology can benefit a few superstar workers, at the expense of everyone else Felix Koenig
February 2020
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Tags: technological change; labour markets; labor markets; labour; labor; innovation

Journal article
The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen February 2020
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JEL Classification: J3;L11

Tags: labour share; concentration; superstar firms; productivity; globalisation; technological change

CEP election analysis
#GE2019Economists: the research evidence on key issues for voters in the 2019 UK General Election December 2019
Paper No' CEPEA056:
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Tags: uk 2019 general election; uk economy; labour market; brexit economics; immigration; social mobility; education and skills; people; places and politics; housing; energy and climate change; health and social care; policing and crime

CEP election analysis
The labour market Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
November 2019
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Tags: employment; jobs; labour; productivity; unemployment; wages; 2019 general election

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The gig economy and workers' preferences for steady jobs Nikhil Datta
November 2019
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CentrePiece 24 (3) Autumn 2019

JEL Classification: J22; J24; J32; J81

Tags: atypical work; self-employment; willingness-to-pay; experiment; labour supply preferences

This article summarises 'Willing to Pay for Security: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Analyse Labour Supply Preferences' by Nikhil Datta, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1632

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Can economic incentives promote a more equal gender division of house chores? Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie July 2019
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Tags: gender; labour market;

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Willing to pay for security: a discrete choice experiment to analyse labour supply preferences Nikhil Datta
July 2019
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JEL Classification: J22; J24; J32; J81

Tags: atypical work; self-employment; willingness-to-pay; experiment; labour supply preferences

Journal article
Zero Hours Contracts and Labour Market Policy Nikhil Datta, Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin
June 2019
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Tags: employment; zero hours contracts; zhcs; labour market inequality; wages

CEP discussion paper
The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner
March 2019
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JEL Classification: R23; J42; J31

Tags: urban wage premium; imperfect labour markets; monopsony; search frictions

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Incidence, salience, and spillovers: the direct and indirect effects of tax credits on wages Ghazala Azmat
February 2019
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JEL Classification: I38; J30; H22; H23

Tags: wages; tax credits; incidence; salience; labour markets

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Polarization(s) in Labour Markets: Synthesis and Perspectives Alan Manning
January 2019
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Tags: polarization; labour markets

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Apprenticeships in England: what do we know? Sandra McNally
November 2018
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CentrePiece 23 (3) Autumn 2018

Tags: apprenticeships; labour market

This article summarises the following publication, as well as making reference to more recent findings: ‘Apprenticeships in England: What Does Research Tell Us?’ by Sandra McNally: CEP Industrial Strategy Paper No. 2.

CEP industrial strategy paper
Apprenticeships in England: what does research tell us? Sandra McNally
July 2018
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Tags: apprenticeship; labour market;

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‘The Everyday Economy’ and the next economic settlement Dan Chandler
June 2018
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Tags: everyday economy; labour party; political economy

Journal article
You've come a long way, baby. Husbands’ commuting time and family labour supply Marta De Philippis
March 2018
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Tags: commuting time; gender economics; household production; time allocation and labour supply;

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How 'local' are local labour markets? Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
March 2018
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CentrePiece 23 (1) Spring 2018

JEL Classification: J61; J63; J64; R12

Tags: job search; local labour markets; location-based policies; ripple effects

This article summarises ‘How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model’ by Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1101, December 2011
This paper has been published as:
'How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model', Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo, American Economic Review, Volume 107, Issue 10, October 2017

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Is there a payoff to apprenticeships for young people? Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura
March 2018
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CentrePiece 23 (1) Spring 2018

Tags: apprenticeships; labour markets; education; vocational education; wages

This article summarises ‘Apprenticeships for Young People in England: Is there a Payoff?’ by Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura, Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) Discussion Paper No. 10, November 2017

CEP discussion paper
Gender and promotions: evidence from academic economists in France Clément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes and Cecilia García-Peñalosa November 2017
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JEL Classification: J16; J7; I23

Tags: gender gaps; promotions; academic labour markets

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia Girum Abebe, Stefano Caria, Marcel Fafchamps, Paolo Falco, Simon Franklin, Simon Quinn and Forhad Shilpi October 2017
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JEL Classification: O18; J22; J24; J61; J64

Tags: matching; labour; job-search; firms; recruitment; experiment

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In brief...Career opportunities Sandra McNally
July 2017
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CentrePiece 22 (2) Summer 2017

Tags: labour market outcomes; educational investment; career advice

This article summarises ‘How Important is Career Information and Advice?’ by Sandra McNally, a contribution to IZA World of Labor.

CEP election analysis
The NHS and Social Care: Prospects for Funding, Staffing and Performance into the 2020s Alistair McGuire
May 2017
Paper No' CEPEA037:
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Tags: 2017 general election; health; nhs; social care; healthcare; conservative government; labour party; liberal democrat party; brexit; health and social care act 2012

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CEP election analysis
Real Wages and Living Standards in the UK Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
May 2017
Paper No' CEPEA036:
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Tags: real wages; uk 2017 general election; brexit; uk economy; labour market

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CEP discussion paper
The fall of the labor share and the rise of superstar firms David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen May 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1482:
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JEL Classification: J3

Tags: labour share; concentration; superstar firms

CEP discussion paper
Concentrating on the fall of the labor share David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen
April 2017
Paper No' CEPDP1476:
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JEL Classification: J3

Tags: labour share; concentration; superstar firms

This paper has been published as:
Concentrating on the Decline in Labor's Share, John Van Reenen, David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F. Katz and Christina Patterson, American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, Volume 107, Issue 5, May 2017

CEP discussion paper
The loss of production work: evidence from quasi-experimental identification of labour demand functions Elias Einiö
October 2016
Paper No' CEPDP1451:
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JEL Classification: F16; J23; J24; O33

Tags: labour demand function; occupation; offshoring; manufacturing; panel data; production work; technical change

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Brexit and the UK labour market Barbara Petrongolo
October 2016
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CentrePiece 21 (2) Autumn 2016

Tags: brexit; eu referendum; uk economy; immigration; labour market

This analysis of the UK labour market was first published in the VoxEU ebook Brexit Beckons: Thinking ahead by leading economists.

CEP Brexit analysis
BREXIT 2016: policy analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance Holger Breinlich, Swati Dhingra, Saul Estrin, Hanwei Huang, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Thomas Sampson, John Van Reenen and Jonathan Wadsworth June 2016
Paper No' CEPBREXIT08:
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Tags: brexit; eu referendum; uk economy; uk politics; trade; foreign investment; growth; productivity; immigration; wages; labour

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Enabled to Work: The Impact of Government Housing on Slum Dwellers in South Africa Simon Franklin
May 2016
Paper No' SERCDP0197:
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JEL Classification: P14; J22; O18; D13

Tags: housing; labour supply; time allocation; home production

CEP real wages update
Slowing UK Wage Growth David Blanchflower and Stephen Machin
February 2016
Paper No' CEPRWU004:
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Tags: uk wage growth; labour market; government policy; average weekly earnings (awe); inflation; unemployment

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Wage stagnation and the legacy costs of employment Brian Bell reveals the downside of special payments to fund deficit gaps in 'defined benefit' company pension schemes Brian Bell
November 2015
Paper No' CEPCP458:
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CentrePiece 20 (2) Autumn 2015

Tags: decoupling; wages; productivity; compensation; labour income share

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Offshoring and the Geography of Jobs in Great Britain Luisa Gagliardi, Simona Iammarino and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
October 2015
Paper No' SERCDP0185:
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JEL Classification: F21; F66; J42; J23; J24

Tags: offshoring; local labour markets; job creation and destruction; routine and non-routine occupations

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Role of Education for Amenity Based Sorting in British Cities Luisa Gagliardi and Teresa Schlüter
September 2015
Paper No' SERCDP0184:
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JEL Classification: R23; R22; J24

Tags: neighborhood characteristics; sorting; amenities; skills; local labour markets; hedonic pricing

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Moving People with Ideas - Innovation, Inter-regional Mobility and Firm Heterogeneity Riccardo Crescenzi and Luisa Gagliardi
April 2015
Paper No' SERCDP0174:
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JEL Classification: O31; O15; J61; R23

Tags: innovation; labour mobility; inter-regional migration; spillovers

CEP election analysis
The Economic Performance of UK Cities: Can Urban and Regional Policy Make a Difference to the North-South Divide Henry Overman March 2015
Paper No' CEPEA025:
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Tags: uk cities; urban economies; recession; #electioneconomics; spatial equilibrium; labour; housing market; wages; regional disparities

CEP election analysis
Immigration and the UK Labour Market Jonathan Wadsworth
February 2015
Paper No' CEPEA019:
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Tags: immigration; european union; uk; government policy; education; labour market; jobs; wages

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Employment and Technological Change: On the Geography of Labour Market Adjustments Luisa Gagliardi
October 2014
Paper No' SERCDP0165:
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JEL Classification: R12; R23; R21; O33; J24

Tags: local labour market; employment; technological change; skills

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Fiat Chrysler and the future of industry Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Maria Teresa Trentinaglia
October 2014
Paper No' CEPCP434:
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CentrePiece 19 (2) Autumn 2014

Tags: fiat chrysler; industry; workforce; labour

CEP discussion paper
What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League Alex Bryson and Arnaud Chevalier July 2014
Paper No' CEPDP1283:
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JEL Classification: J15; J23; J24; J71; M51

Tags: race; labour market discrimination; football

This paper has been published as:
Is there a taste for racial discrimination amongst employers?, Alex Bryson and Arnaud Chevalier, Labour Economics, Volume 34, June 2015

CEP discussion paper
Biomarkers and Long-term Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine Petri Bockerman, Alex Bryson, Christian Hakulinen, Jaakko Pehkonen, Laura Pulkki-Raback, Olli Raitakari and Jutta Viinikainen June 2014
Paper No' CEPDP1279:
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JEL Classification: I19; J3

Tags: biomarkers; creatine; creatinine; labour market; earnings; employment

CEP policy analysis
Immigration, the European Union and the UK Labour Market Jonathan Wadsworth
May 2014
Paper No' CEPPA015:
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Tags: immigration; european union; uk; government policy; education; labour market; jobs; wages

CEP discussion paper
The Impact of Mandatory Entitlement to Paid Leave on Employment in the UK Alexander C. Lembcke
March 2014
Paper No' CEPDP1262:
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JEL Classification: J08; J23; J45

Tags: uk working time regulation; employment and labour regulation; uk lfs

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Relocation of Public Sector Workers: Evaluating a Place-based Policy Giulia Faggio
February 2014
Paper No' SERCDP0155:
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JEL Classification: O1; R23; R58; J61

Tags: economic development; regional labour markets; regional government policy; job displacement

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Wage growth and productivity growth: the myth and reality of 'decoupling' Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
December 2013
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CentrePiece 18 (2) Autumn 2013

JEL Classification: E24; J20; J30

Tags: decoupling; wages; productivity; compensation; labour income share

This article summarises ‘Decoupling of Wage Growth and Productivity Growth? Myth and Reality’ by João Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1246.

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Gender and Competition: Evidence from Academic Promotions in France Clément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes and Cecila Garcia-Penalosa November 2013
Paper No' SERCDP0147:
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JEL Classification: J16; J7; I23

Tags: gender gaps; promotions; academic labour markets

CEP discussion paper
Decoupling of Wage Growth and Productivity Growth? Myth and Reality Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
October 2013
Paper No' CEPDP1246:
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JEL Classification: E24; J20; J30

Tags: decoupling; wages; productivity; compensation; labour income share.

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Urban Escalators and Inter-regional Elevators: The Difference that Location, Mobility and Sectoral Specialisation make to Occupational Progression Tony Champion, Mike Coombes and Ian Gordon September 2013
Paper No' SERCDP0139:
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JEL Classification: J24; J61; J62; R23

Tags: escalator region; labour migration; elevator effect; city-regions; social mobility; career progression

CEP report
The UK productivity and jobs puzzle: does the answer lie in labour market flexibility? Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen
June 2013
Paper No' CEPSP31:
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JEL Classification: J2; J3; O52

Tags: productivity; employment; wages; labour market flexibility; growth

This paper has been published as:
The UK productivity and jobs puzzle: does the answer lie in wage flexibility?, Joao Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen, The Economic Journal, Volume 124, Issue 576, May 2014

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Sexism at work Björn Erikssoon, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors
December 2012
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CentrePiece 17 (3) Winter 2012

JEL Classification: J16; J24; J71; J33; J40; L25

Tags: gender; productivity; discrimination; piece-rates; time-rates; labour markets; firm survival

This article summarises ‘Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-century Tobacco Industry’ by Tim Leunig, Maria Stanfors, Bjorn Eriksson and Tobias Karlsson, CEP Discussion Paper No.1053, June 2011.

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Driving Up Wages: The Effects of Road Construction in Great Britain Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
October 2012
Paper No' SERCDP0120:
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JEL Classification: J31; 018; R12

Tags: job accessibility; labour markets; roads; spatial sorting

CEP policy analysis
Immigration and the UK Labour Market: The latest evidence from economic research Jonathan Wadsworth
June 2012
Paper No' CEPPA014:
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Tags: immigration; government policy; education; labour market; jobs; wages

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Local Labour Markets Giulia Faggio and Henry G. Overman
June 2012
Paper No' SERCDP0111:
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JEL Classification: J31; J45

Tags: local labour markets; public and private sector employment; wages

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Growth and productivity: UK economic performance since 1997 Dan Corry, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen
May 2012
Paper No' CEPCP366:
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CentrePiece 17 (1) Spring 2012

Tags: uk economic performance; productivity; fiscal policy; labour government

This article summarises 'UK Economic Performance Since 1997: Growth, Productivity and Jobs', by Dan Corry, Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Special Paper No. 24, December 2011

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Ambition, Human Capital Acquisition and the Metropolitan Escalator Ian Gordon
April 2012
Paper No' SERCDP0107:
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JEL Classification: J24; J61; J62; R23

Tags: escalator region; migration; urban labour market; london; social mobility; human capital

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Accounting for Big City Growth in Low Paid Occupations: Immigration and/or Service Class Consumption Ian Gordon and Ioannis Kaplanis April 2012
Paper No' SERCDP0106:
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JEL Classification: J21; J23; F22; R12

Tags: regional labour markets; wages; employment; international migration; consumer demand

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Flexible Employment and Cross-Regional Adjustment Ioannis Kaplanis and Vassilis Monastiriotis
January 2012
Paper No' SERCDP0100:
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JEL Classification: R11; R23; J08; J61

Tags: employment flexibility; regional migration; labour market adjustment

CEP discussion paper
How Local Are Labour Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo
December 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1101:
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JEL Classification: J61; J63; J64; R12

Tags: job search; local labour markets; location-based policies; ripple effects

This paper has been published as:
'How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model', Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo, American Economic Review Volume 107(10), October 2017

CEP discussion paper
Measuring the (Income) Effect of Disability Insurance Generosity on Labour Market Participation Olivier Marie and Judit Vall Castello November 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1094:
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JEL Classification: J14; J26; J40

Tags: disability insurance; labour market participation; income effect; regression discontinuity

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Unequal Britain: How Real Are Regional Disparities? Steve Gibbons and Henry Overman
October 2011
Paper No' CEPCP353:
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CentrePiece 16 (2) Autumn 2011

JEL Classification: J31; J60; R11; R23; R29

Tags: wage; disparities; labour; britain; spatial equilibrium; amenity value; housing market

For further reading, see SERC Discussion Papers No.60, No.65 and No.74

CEP discussion paper
The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment Michael W. L. Elsby, Jennifer C. Smith and Jonathan Wadsworth July 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1058:
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JEL Classification: E24; J6

Tags: labour market; unemployment; worker flows

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In brief: Chernobyl: the long-term health and economic consequences Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth
June 2011
Paper No' CEPCP342:
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CentrePiece 16 (1) Summer 2011

JEL Classification: H00; J00

Tags: chernobyl; health; labour market performance

This article summarises 'The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance' by Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1052.

CEP discussion paper
Gender, Productivity and the Nature of Work and Pay: Evidence from the Late Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Industry Björn Eriksson, Tobias Karlsson, Tim Leunig and Maria Stanfors June 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1053:
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JEL Classification: J16; J24; J71; J33; J40; L25

Tags: gender; productivity; discrimination; piece-rates; time-rates; labour markets; firm survival

CEP discussion paper
The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance Hartmut Lehmann and Jonathan Wadsworth
May 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1052:
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JEL Classification: H00; J00

Tags: chernobyl; health; labour market performance

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Post-16 Educational Choices and Institutional Value Added at Key Stage 5 Claire Crawford, Elena Meschi and Anna Vignoles
April 2011
Paper No' CEEDP0124:
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JEL Classification: I21; J22

Tags: labour supply; school entry; regression discontinuity; lone parents; welfare receipt

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
The Long Term Impacts of Migration in British Cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment and Prices Max Nathan
February 2011
Paper No' SERCDP0067:
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JEL Classification: D24; J15; J61; O18; R11; R23

Tags: cities; migration; cultural diversity; labour markets; productivity; urban economics

Journal article
Minimum wages and firm profitability Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John Van Reenen
January 2011
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JEL Classification: J31;J38;L25

Tags: wage level; structure; wages; labour markets

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Real Earnings Disparities in Britain Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Guilherme Resende
January 2011
Paper No' SERCDP0065:
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JEL Classification: J60; R23

Tags: britain; spatial equilibrium; labour market; housing market

CEP discussion paper
Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health Joshua D. Angrist, Stacey H. Chen and Brigham R. Frandsen December 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1041:
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JEL Classification: H55; H59; I12; I38; J22

Tags: public economics; social security and public pensions; health; education; welfare; labour; demographic economics

CEP discussion paper
Individualisation and Growing Diversity of Employment Relationships William Brown and David Marsden
December 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1037:
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JEL Classification: J53

Tags: labour-management relations; individual and collective voice

CEP discussion paper
Trade and Labor Market Outcomes Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki and Stephen Redding
December 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1028:
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JEL Classification: F12; F16; J64

Tags: inequality; unemployment; trade; labour market policy

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Starting School And Leaving Welfare: The Impact of Public Education on Lone Parents' Welfare Receipt Mike Brewer and Claire Crawford October 2010
Paper No' CEEDP0121:
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JEL Classification: I21; J22

Tags: labour supply; school entry; regression discontinuity; lone parents; welfare receipt

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Wage Disparities in Britain: People or Place? Steve Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Panu Pelkonen
October 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0060:
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JEL Classification: R11; J31

Tags: wage; disparities; labour

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Area Disparities in Britain: Understanding the Contribution of People vs. Place Through Variance Decompositions, Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Panu Pelkonen, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Early view, July 2014

CEP discussion paper
Industrial Structure and Child Labor: Evidence from the Brazilian Population Census Furio Camillo Rosati and Marco Manacorda
October 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1008:
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JEL Classification: J21; J24; O15; O18

Tags: child labour; shift-share analysis; brazil

CEP discussion paper
Individual Voice in Employment Relationships: A Comparison Under Different Collective Voice Regimes David Marsden
October 2010
Paper No' CEPDP1006:
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JEL Classification: J53

Tags: labour-management relations; industrial jurisprudence; individual and collective voice; works councils

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Geography or Economics? A Micro-Level Analysis of the Determinants of Degree Choice in the Context of Regional Economic Disparities in the UK Philip Wales September 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0056:
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JEL Classification: C25; I2; J24; R23

Tags: education; human capital; skills; regional labour markets

CentrePiece article
Jobs in the recession Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
July 2010
Paper No' CEPCP317:
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CentrePiece 15 (1) Summer 2010

JEL Classification: J0; J2; J3; J6

Tags: labour market; recession; unemployment; wages

CentrePiece article
In brief: The wage premium of two-footed footballers Alex Bryson
July 2010
Paper No' CEPCP312:
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CentrePiece 15 (1) Summer 2010

Tags: labour markets; performance related pay; wages

CEP occasional paper
The UK Labour Market and the 2008 - 2009 Recession Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth
June 2010
Paper No' CEPOP25:
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JEL Classification: J0;J2;J3;J6

Tags: labour market; recession; unemployment; wages

CEP discussion paper
Imperfect Competition in the Labour Market Alan Manning
May 2010
Paper No' CEPDP0981:
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JEL Classification: J0; J42; J63; J64

Tags: imperfect competition; labour markets; rents; search; matching; monopsony

CEP election analysis
Immigration and the UK Labour Market: The Evidence from Economic Research Jonathan Wadsworth
April 2010
Paper No' CEPEA006:
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Tags: immigration; uk; labour market

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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Local Human Capital and Its Impact on Local Employment Chances in Britain Ioannis Kaplanis
January 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0040:
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JEL Classification: J21; J24; R23

Tags: local labour markets; employment; consumer demand; human capital externalities

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Wage Effects from Changes in Local Human Capital in Britain Ioannis Kaplanis
January 2010
Paper No' SERCDP0039:
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JEL Classification: J21; J24; J31; R23

Tags: local labour markets; wages; consumer demand; human capital externalities

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Education and Mobility Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen and Kjell Salvanes
December 2008
Paper No' CEEDP0100:
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JEL Classification: I28;J24;J61

Tags: education; mobility; labour market.

CEP occasional paper
The Impact of Policy Change on Job Retention and Advancement Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP23:
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JEL Classification: J68

Tags: labour market; welfare reform; job retention

CEP occasional paper
Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP22:
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JEL Classification: J61

Tags: migration; labour markets; assimilation

CEP occasional paper
Changes in Earnings Inequality and Mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6 Richard Dickens and Abigail McKnight
October 2008
Paper No' CEPOP21:
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JEL Classification: J62

Tags: earnings inequality; labour market mobility

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Labour Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical Investigation Henry Overman and Diego Puga
September 2008
Paper No' SERCDP0006:
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JEL Classification: R30; R12

Tags: labour market pooling; spatial concentration

CEP discussion paper
How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK? Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman
August 2008
Paper No' CEPDP0885:
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JEL Classification: J33; L23; L25

Tags: share ownership; payment systems; labour productivity

CEP discussion paper
Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman
August 2008
Paper No' CEPDP0884:
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JEL Classification: J5; J51; J52; J53; L25; M54

Tags: worker voice; trade unions; quits; employment relations; labour productivity; financial performance; industrial action

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Competition for private and state school teachers Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy and Yu Zhu
January 2008
Paper No' CEEDP0094:
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Tags: private schools; state schools; independent schools; teachers' labour markets

CEP discussion paper
Labor Market Institutions Around the World Richard Freeman
January 2008
Paper No' CEPDP0844:
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JEL Classification: J01

Tags: labour market; unemployment

CEP discussion paper
Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis Andrew E. Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard E. Lucas November 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0836:
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JEL Classification: I31; J12; J13; J63; J64

Tags: life satisfaction; anticipation; adaptation; baseline satisfaction; labour market and life events

CEP discussion paper
Conflict-Induced Displacement and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina Florence Kondylis November 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0777:
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JEL Classification: C33; C81; J60; O15; R23

Tags: civil conflict; labour market; migration; panel data

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
The Impact of Early Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills on Later Outcomes Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman
October 2007
Paper No' CEEDP0092:
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Tags: cognitive skills; non-cognitive skills; labour maket outcomes; education outcomes; social outcomes

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
Are There Day of the Week Productivity Effects? Alex Bryson and John Forth
July 2007
Paper No' MHRLDP0004:
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JEL Classification: J22; J24

Tags: labour productivity; days of the week; temporal variation

CEP discussion paper
The Returns to Temporary Migration to the United States: Evidence from the Mexican Urban Employment Survey Benjamin Aleman-Castilla June 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0804:
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JEL Classification: J61; J22; J15

Tags: temporary migration; real wages; labour supply

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
Temporary Agency Workers and Workplace Performance in the Private Sector Alex Bryson
May 2007
Paper No' MHRLDP0003:
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JEL Classification: J50; L22; L23; L24;

Tags: temporary agency workers; labour productivity; financial performance

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
The Value of Basic Skills in the British Labour Market Oscar Marcenaro Gutierrez, Anna Vignoles and Augustin de Coulon
May 2007
Paper No' CEEDP0077:
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Tags: skills; labour market; literacy; numeracy

CEP discussion paper
The Plant Size-Place Effect: Agglomeration and Monopsony in Labour Markets Alan Manning
January 2007
Paper No' CEPDP0773:
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JEL Classification: J21; J42; R23

Tags: agglomeration; labour markets; monopsony

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
The Long Term Impacts of Compulsory Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in School Leaving Dates Emilia Del Bono and Fernando Galindo-Rueda January 2007
Paper No' CEEDP0074:
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JEL Classification: I2; C3; J2

Tags: education qualifications; school leaving age; instrumental variables; labour market impacts

CEP discussion paper
Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Presence of Informal Labour Markets Mariano Bosch
November 2006
Paper No' CEPDP0761:
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JEL Classification: J64; H26; O17

Tags: informal economy; search models; labour markets; regulations.

CEP discussion paper
Trends in Hours and Economic Growth L. Rachel Ngai and Christopher A. Pissarides
August 2006
Paper No' CEPDP0746:
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JEL Classification: J21; J22; O14; O41

Tags: hours of work; labour supply; structural transformation; home production; marketization; balanced growth

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
Which Skills Matter? Pedro Carneiro, Claire Crawford and Alissa Goodman
July 2006
Paper No' CEEDP0059:
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Tags: cognitive skills; non-cognitive skills; ncds; schooling; labour market outcomes

CEP occasional paper
Lisbon Five Years Later. What future for European employment and growth? Christopher A. Pissarides
July 2006
Paper No' CEPOP20:
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JEL Classification: J6; O47; O52

Tags: labour markets; europe; reform; lisbon agenda

CEP discussion paper
The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding and Fabrizio Zilibotti June 2006
Paper No' CEPDP0728:
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JEL Classification: O14; O18; O21

Tags: delicensing; economic development; labour regulation

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper
From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes Sandra E. Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes March 2006
Paper No' CEEDP0061:
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Tags: labour market outcomes; educational attainment; birth weight

Book
Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market Richard Layard, Peter Lowe and Stephen Nickell
August 2005
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Tags: high unemployment; unemployment policy; unemployment problem; labour market; oecd unemployment; inflation; wage bargaining; unemployment insurance

CEP discussion paper
You Can't Always Get What You Want: the Impact of the Jobseeker's Allowance Alan Manning
July 2005
Paper No' CEPDP0697:
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JEL Classification: J64

Tags: unemployment insurance; job search; labour supply

Book
Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets Alan Manning
January 2005
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Tags: labour markets; monopsony

CEP discussion paper
Are European Labor Markets As Awful As All That? Richard Freeman
August 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0644:
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JEL Classification: J0

Tags: labour markets; us; eu; labour market institutions

CEP discussion paper
Employment and Taxes Stephen Nickell
May 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0634:
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JEL Classification: H2; J2

Tags: employment; taxation; labour supply

CEP discussion paper
Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi and L. Alan Winters February 2004
Paper No' CEPDP0618:
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JEL Classification: F22; J44; J61

Tags: brain drain; international labour market; professional labour markets; doctors; physicians; international migration

CEP discussion paper
The Anatomy of Union Decline in Britain: 1990-1998 A Charlwood
December 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0601:
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JEL Classification: J5

Tags: labour management relations; trade unions; collective bargaining

CEP discussion paper
Aggregate Growth and the Efficiency of Labour Reallocation Simon Burgess and Dan Mawson
August 2003
Paper No' CEPDP0580:
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JEL Classification: O40;J63

Tags: growth; labour market efficiency; labour market institutions

Book
The Wage Curve
January 2003
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Tags: unemployment; labour economics

CEP discussion paper
The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain. Maria Gutierrez-Domenech
December 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0556:
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JEL Classification: I20;J12;J13;J18;J20

Tags: duration models; fertility; labour market; education

CEP discussion paper
Educational Attainment, Labour Market Institutions, and the Structure of Production Stephen Nickell, Stephen Redding and Joanna Swaffield September 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0545:
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JEL Classification: F0;J0;O3

Tags: de-industrialization; educational attainment; factor endowments; labour market institutions; specialization

CEP discussion paper
Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionisation: Are American, British, and Canadian Workers All That Different? Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and Noah Meltz January 2002
Paper No' CEPDP0515:
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JEL Classification: J31;J51

Tags: unions; youth preferences; comparative labour markets

CEP discussion paper
Monopsony and the Efficiency of Labour Market Interventions Alan Manning
November 2001
Paper No' CEPDP0514:
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JEL Classification: J0

Tags: labour market policy; monopsony

CEP discussion paper
The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s - Preliminary Version Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel and Glenda Quintini July 2001
Paper No' CEPDP0502:
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JEL Classification: E240; J300

Tags: beveridge curve; labour market rigidities; unemployment rates; wage determination

CEP discussion paper
A Generalised Model of Monopsony Alan Manning
July 2001
Paper No' CEPDP0499:
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JEL Classification: J63

Tags: labour turnover

CEP discussion paper
Jobs, Workers and Changes in Earnings Dispersion Simon Burgess, Julia Lane and David Stevens
April 2001
Paper No' CEPDP0491:
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JEL Classification: J31; D31

Tags: earnings inequality; labour reallocation; matched worker and firm panels

CEP discussion paper
Labour Supply, Search and Taxes Alan Manning
February 2000
Paper No' CEPDP0449:
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Tags: labour supply; taxes; search

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