Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market

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...

Four Ways to Measure Culture

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

THE MOST PROMISING WAYS TO MEASURE Vub

I review currently discussed methods to determine the CKM mixing matrix element |Vub| from experimental data. Although the theory of inclusive decays and their spectra has entered a model-independent stage, its predictions are still sensitive to various input parameters, in particular the poorly known b quark mass. At present, determinations from exclusive channels, notably B → πeν, seem slight...

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...