This paper develops a simple multi-country model with imperfect labour markets to study the effect of labour market frictions – reflected in the compression of the gap in factor returns of capital versus labour – on bilateral trade flows. We use a framework that allows for goods trade and capital mobility and show that labour market imperfections exert opposite effects in the absence (the short...

UK commentators have noted for some time that the structure of the UK housing market may be detrimental to labour market flexibility. The early 1990s experience of negative housing equity which affected over 20% of home buyers may have “locked” home owners into property, reducing mobility and worsening further the flexibility of the labour market. The present paper uses UK household longitudina...

This paper investigates the factors that determine job-to-job mobility in Ireland over the period 1995 to 2001. It finds that labour market experience, working in the public sector, whether a person is overskilled, the sector they work in and their occupation are important determinants of voluntary job change. The paper finds the rate of voluntary job mobility in Ireland trebled over the period...

NMS (10 new Member States that joined the EU in May 2004) CZ Czech Republic CY Cyprus EE Estonia HU Hungary LV Latvia LT Lithuania MT Malta PL Poland SK Slovakia SI Slovenia For the analysis of this report, all EU25 countries were grouped in country clusters based on the prevailing employment regime in each country (covering all EU25 Member States). 1 With the accession of 10 new Member States ...

Frédéric Décosse. Persistent unfree labour in French intensive agriculture An historical overview of the ’OFII’ temporary farmworkers programme. ALESSANDRA CORRADO; CARLOS DE CASTRO; DOMENICO PERROTTA. Migration and Agriculture: Mobility and change in the Mediterranean area, ROUTLEDGE, pp.183-197, 2016, 9781138962231. <https://www.routledge.com/Migration-and-Agriculture-Mobility-andchange-in-th...

This study analyses how the long-term modernisation process as well as ups and downs of business cycles affect the entry of men into the labour market in West Germany and their career mobility. Combining longitudinal data from the German Life History Study and the ALWA study, we first reconstructed men’s job histories continuously for the period between 1945 and 2008. As a measure of men’s ‘goo...

We use longitudinal data on children and their parents to assess the extent of intergenerational mobility in Britain. Based on data from the National Child Development Survey, a cohort of all individuals born in a week of March , we find that the extent of intergenerational mobility is limited. We report a clear intergenerational correlation between fathers and both sons and daughters in te...