A Panel of Regional Indicators of Labour Market Flexibility: the UK, 1979–998

Vassilis Monastiriotis ()

Chapter 11 in The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions, 2006, pp 221-244 from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

Abstract: Despite the centrality of the issue of labour market flexibility, attempts to consistently measure levels of flexibility, either within or across countries, have been remarkably scarce. This chapter makes a contribution towards filling this gap by presenting a complete set of labour market flexibility indicators for the UK. Derived from survey-data sources, the indexes relate directly to theoretical considerations on the issue of flexibility and cover a 20-year period (1979–1998) at sub-national detail (Standard Statistical Regions). Examination of their temporal and regional variation reveals that flexibility has increased throughout the period across all UK regions. Yet, evidence of convergence in the regional levels of flexibility co-exists with a rather persistent pattern of a North-South dichotomy and regional specialisation in different forms of flexibility.

Keywords: UK regions; labour market flexibility; decomposition; indexes. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 J24 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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