Unemployment Dynamics

A CEPR/ESRC Workshop on unemployment dynamics was held in London on 25 February 1998. The workshop was organized under the auspices of the ESRC Resource Centre, established at CEPR in 1993 to provide networking, dissemination, support and training services to the UK economics community. The organizers were Jennifer Greenslade (London Business School), Brian Henry (London Business School) and Dennis Snower (Birkbeck College, London, and CEPR).

Five papers were presented:

‘Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from Seven OECD Countries’
Stephen Machin (University College London, London School of Economics and CEPR) and
John van Reenen (University College London, London School of Economics and CEPR)

‘Does the Sector Bias of Skilled-Biased Technological Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?’
Jonathan Haskel (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, and CEPR) and
J Slaughter (Dartmouth College, Hanover, and NBER)

‘A Dynamic Wage-Price Model for the UK’
Jennifer Greenslade (London Business School)
Brian Henry (London Business School) and
Richard Jackman (London School of Economics)

‘Hysteresis and Unemployment: Some Preliminary Investigations’
Rod Cross (University of Strathclyde)
Julia Darby (University of Glasgow)
Jonathan Ireland (University of Strathclyde) and
Laura Piscitelli (University of Strathclyde)

‘Staggered Wages and Disinflation Dynamics: What Can More Microfoundations Tell Us?’
Guido Ascari (University of Warwick) and
Neil Rankin (University of Warwick and CEPR)