The Nature of unemployment in Britain : studies of the DHSS cohort

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The Nature of unemployment in Britain : studies of the DHSS cohort

Stephen Nickell ... [et al.]

Oxford University Press, c1989

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This is an important contribution to the study of the characteristics and behaviour of the unemployed especially in their search for work. It is based on the analysis of unusually good data on a large cohort of men registering as unemployed in 1978, which enables the authors to overcome many of the problems of measuring the effects of economic, demographic and policy variables on unemployment. The results presented will interest labour economists and anyone involved in the policy debate on unemployment.

Table of Contents

  • Unemployment benefits revisited
  • modelling the process of job search
  • real earnings gains and losses from unemployment
  • repeat unemployment spells - the effect of unemployment benefits on unemployment entry
  • unemployment inflow rates for autumn 1978
  • incentive and welfare effects of reforming the British benefit system - a simulation study for the wives of the unemployed.

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