The Ins and Outs of UK Unemployment

Jennifer C. Smith

No 270994, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper shows that in the UK, increases in unemployment in a recession are driven by rises in the separation rate. A new decomposition of unemployment dynamics is devised that does not require unemployment to be in steady state at all times. This is important because low UK transition rates ñ one quarter the size of the US ñimply substantial deviation of unemployment from steady state near cyclical turning points. In periods of moderation, the job Önding rate is shown to have most ináuence on UK unemployment dynamics. Evidence comes from the Örst study of monthly data derived from individualsí labour market spells recorded in the British Household Panel Survey from 1988 to 2008.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2010-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270994

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