Exploring misery discourses: problematized Roma in labour market projects

Labour-based infrastructure projects

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

New Labour and the Labour Market

The recent run of good macro-economic news masks mounting evidence that worklessness is increasingly concentrated on selected individuals, households, socio-economic groups and geographical areas . Simply focussing on the aggregate unemployment rate bypasses many of these issues. Likewise, concentration on average wages and wage growth obscures the highest level of wage inequality ever statisti...

Scheduling Projects with Labour Constraints

In this paper we consider a labour constrained scheduling problem (LCSP) which is a simpliication of a practical problem arising in industry. Jobs are subject to precedence constraints and have speciied processing times. Moreover, for each job the labour requirement varies as the job is processed. Given the amount of labour available in each period, the problem is to nish all the jobs as soon a...

Overeducation in the Labour Market

This paper presents a review of the literature on overeducation. The paper assesses the consistency of overeducation within the context of a number of theoretical frameworks including Human Capital Theory (HCT) and Assignment Theory. The analysis goes on to discuss the various measurement controversies associated with the study of overeducation in order to provide an assessment of the extent to...