The Asian Recession and Northern Labour Markets

This Time It ‘ s Different ? Youth Labour Markets During ‘ The Great Recession ’ IZA DP No .

This Time It’s Different? Youth Labour Markets During ‘The Great Recession’ This paper looks at the effects of the ‘Great Recession’ on young people’s labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people’s labour market experiences during the current recession and then seeks to provide some explanations of these applying both cross...

The links between housing markets and labour markets

The links between labour markets and housing markets in Melbourne

International Trade and Labour Markets

This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute to the literature on international trade and labour markets. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand in a model of international oligopoly. As trade barriers are dismantled foreign competition intensifies. Competing enterprises respond by investing mo...

Overlapping Labour Markets

Overlapping labour markets arise when some types of workers do not meet employers with some types of jobs. For example, skilled workers could seek high-skill or low-skill jobs, but low skill workers could be limited to low-skill jobs. The paper derives conditions for equilibrium and efficiency, distinguishes reducible from irreducible overlapping labour markets, and describes distributional imp...