CELMR is the Centre for European Labour Market Research and is made up of 12 faculty from the Economics Department at the University of Aberdeen plus associate members from across the world. The Centre prides itself on high quality, policy relevant research examining a whole range of labour market issues based primarily around four themes: • Education, Skills and Labour Mobility • Inequality in...

Labour income taxation is a central policy topic because labour income makes up the majority of national income and most taxes are in the end taxes on labour. In order to quantify how behavioural responses of labour income earners a ect tax revenue, the Swedish Labour Income Microsimulation Model (SLIMM) is constructed and used to evaluate tax reforms. The model simulates taxable income respons...

This paper summarises the findings of four recent papers by the authors on different aspects of unemployment in South Africa. Based on statistical analysis using household datasets, the papers are concerned with the impact of local unemployment on local wages; the appropriate definition and measure of unemployment in the particular circumstances of the South African labour market; the nature of...

Labour economists have developed elaborate theoretical models and conducted very advanced econometric analysis of the decision making of households. But this emphasis on the supply side of the labour market has not been matched by any corresponding degree of sophistication in empirical analysis of the demand side of the labour market. This has been due in part to the lack of appropriate data. T...

This applied demography paper assembles diverse literature in demography, economics, sociology, and industrial relations to examine the emergence of intergenerational conflict within labour force groups. First the paper defines the generations based on demographic and economic considerations and reviews the existing literature on intergenerational conflict. Second, using Canadian labour market ...

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a Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands b Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London, United Kingdom c Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, 17071, Spain d Research Centre for Economy and Health (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ramon T...

Labour Productivity in the British and South Wales Coal Industry, 1874-1914 Author(s): Barry T. Hirsch and William J. Hausman Reviewed work(s): Source: Economica, New Series, Vol. 50, No. 198 (May, 1983), pp. 145-157 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The London School of Economics and Political Science and The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disc...