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The Labour Market Imperfections Group, which is organized by CEPR and supported by a grant from the UK Department of Employment, held two London workshops in late 1993. The first workshop, on `Job Creation and Job Destruction', on 19 November, was organized by Kenneth Burdett and Eric Smith, respectively Professor of and Lecturer in Economics at the University of Essex, and Dennis Snower, Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, London, and Co-Director of the Centre's Human Resources programme. The following papers were presented: `Job Creation and Job Destruction in the UK: 1980-1990', David Blanchflower (Dartmouth College) and Simon Burgess (University of Bristol) `A Simple Model of Job Creation and Job Destruction', Dale Mortenson (Northwestern University) and Christopher Pissarides (LSE) `The Cyclical Behavior of Job and Worker Flows', Dale Mortensen `Insiders, Outsiders, and Seniority Employment Rules', Jeff Frank (University of Essex) and James Malcomson (University of Southampton) `Labor Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: Efficiency Wage Vs Frictional Unemployment', James Malcomson, W Bentley MacLeod (Université de Montréal) and Paul Gomme (Simon Fraser University) The second workshop, on `Unemployment Policy: How Should Governments Respond to Unemployment?', on 13 December, was organized by Dennis Snower. The following papers were presented: `The UK Labour Market: Micro Rigidities and Macro Obstructions', Patrick Minford (University of Liverpool and CEPR) and Jonathan Riley (Cardiff Business School `European Unemployment: My Personal Synthesis (An Informal Note)', Jacques Drèze (Center for Operations Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, and CEPR) `The Benefit Transfer Programme: A Proposal for Tackling Long-Term Unemployment', Dennis Snower (Birkbeck College, London, and CEPR) `Unemployment and the Benefit System', Stephen Nickell (Institute of Economics and Statistics, Oxford, and CEPR) `Combining Micro Programmes to Reduce Unemployment and Raise the Wages of Low-skill Workers', Richard Freeman (Harvard University and LSE) `The Effects of a Training Subsidy on
Unemployment and Welfare', Dale Mortenson |