Unemployment Dynamics Workshops

Two CEPR/ESRC workshops on ‘Unemployment Dynamics’ were held in London on 20 May 1998 and 4 November 1998. The organizers were Jennifer Greenslade (London Business School), Brian Henry (London Business School) and Dennis Snower (Birkbeck College, London and CEPR).

The following papers were presented at the May meeting:

‘The Cost of Low Inflation? Nominal Wage Rigidity in the UK’
Jennifer Smith (University of Warwick)

‘Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs: Theory and Some Evidence’
Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEPR)

‘Modelling Wages and the Supply Side of the UK Economy’
Stephen Hall (Imperial College, London, and CEF, London Business School) and
James Nixon (CEF, London Business School)

‘Technical Progress and the Natural Rate in a Vintage Model’
Julia Darby (University of Glasgow)
Jonathan Ireland (University of Strathclyde) and
Simon Wren-Lewis (University of Exeter)

At the November meeting, the papers presented were:

‘The Missing Piece of the Unemployment Puzzle’
Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick)

‘Externalities in the Matching of Workers and Firms in Britain’
Simon Burgess (University of Bristol and CEPR) and
Stefan Profit (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

‘Dynamic Asymmetries in US Unemployment’
Gary Koop (University of Edinburgh) and
Simon Potter (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

‘Job Displacement, Non-Employment and Wages in Germany’, Stefan Bender (Institüt für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg), Christian Dustmann (University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and CEPR) and Costas Meghir (University College London, Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, and CEPR)