10 . Labour market issues

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

CELMR Research Digest

CELMR is the Centre for European Labour Market Research and is made up of 12 faculty from the Economics Department at the University of Aberdeen plus associate members from across the world. The Centre prides itself on high quality, policy relevant research examining a whole range of labour market issues based primarily around four themes: • Education, Skills and Labour Mobility • Inequality in...

Estimation of the Number of Workers Subjected to the Labour Law

Abstract. Employees include a main part of labour force in each country. This group is so important since a long time ago, International Labour Organization has allocated lots of its indicators such as decent work ones to the group. On the other hand, the employees in Iran are subject to the various employment laws that one of them is the labour law. According to the labour law, the Ministry of...

Residential Mobility, Housing Wealth and the Labour Market

UK commentators have noted for some time that the structure of the UK housing market may be detrimental to labour market flexibility. The early 1990s experience of negative housing equity which affected over 20% of home buyers may have “locked” home owners into property, reducing mobility and worsening further the flexibility of the labour market. The present paper uses UK household longitudina...

Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using wage changes to identify tho...