Jonathan Wadsworth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 977024 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonathan Wadsworth |
| NOMBRES | Jonathan |
| APELLIDO | Wadsworth |
| FIRMA | WADSWORTH J |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6283-6688 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Population Growth, Immigration, and Labor Market Dynamics
This article provides a first synthesis of population flows and labor market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations. We devise a novel dynamic accounting methodology that integrates population flows from two sources—changes in birth cohort size and immigrant flows—with labor market dynamics. We illustrate the method using data for the United Kingdom, where population flows have been large and cyclical, driven first by the maturatio…
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets
The growth of public transport networks in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had profound effects on commuting in the industrialized world, yet the consequences for labor markets during this important period of historical development remains largely unstudied. This paper draws on a unique dataset combining individual commuting and wage information for working-class residents of London, circa 1930, to analyze, for the first time, t…
Good jobs’, training and skilled immigration
Has skilled immigration into the UK led to a reduction in the training of native‐born workers? To address this concern, this paper describes a theoretical model where immigration can affect the training of native‐born workers both positively and negatively, and where its effects may differ according to the characteristics of the migrant and of the training firm's sector. It then investigates this issue empirically using UK Labour Force Survey dat…
The Impact of Acquiring Unrestricted Work Authorization on Romanian and Bulgarian Migrants in the United Kingdom
When Romania and Bulgaria (the so-called A2 countries) joined the European Union in 2007, the United Kingdom imposed temporary restrictions on the employment and welfare entitlements of A2 citizens that lasted until January 1, 2014. This article analyzes the impact of the removal of these restrictions on the labor market outcomes and use of welfare benefits of A2 migrants. Applying difference-in-difference analysis to data from the UK's Labour Fo…
Unemployment and Domestic Violence
Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite‐signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic ab…
Understanding Unemployment
Britain remains an 'economy of unemployment', symptomatic of an inefficient labour market founded on inequalities of locality, sex, race and age. This offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the nature of a continuing crisis.
The labour market in winter
This text provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath. It contains assessments of the effects of many policies introduced over the last 10 years in employment, education and welfare.
The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages
Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the supply of educated natives have had significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time ser…
Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level. Theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain
The advent of any earnings boost, such as provided by the introduction of a minimum wage, might be expected to reduce the supply of low‐paid individuals wanting to hold a second job. This paper uses difference‐in‐differences estimation on a panel of individuals matched across successive Labour Force Surveys around the time of the introduction of the national minimum wage in the United Kingdom in order to estimate the impact of the minimum wage an…
Gay Pay in the UK
This paper attempts, for the first time for the UK, to analyse the earnings of homosexuals and test for the possible existence of sexual orientation discrimination by using decomposition analysis. Homosexuals are identified as individuals living with ‘same‐sex partners’. Gay men and lesbians in our sample both earn more on average than non‐gays. However, we find that the decomposition indicates that homosexual men may be subject to discrimination…
Workless Households and the Recovery
By 1996 the distribution of work across households was more unequal than at any time in the previous 25 years; such that one in five households of working age had no employed adult present. Economic recovery after 1996 has reduced the share of households where no one is in work. Single parent households have been the main beneficiaries. However, the long-term increase in unequal allocation of work across households appears only to have halted ove…
The Labour Market Performance of Ethnic Minorities in the Recovery
Employment rates for British born minorities and immigrants are much lower than those of British born whites with the same age and level of educational attainment. Over the recovery, employment and unemployment differentials narrowed for some, but not all, minority groups relative to British born whites. Employment differentials narrowed more for British born ethnic minority individuals than for immigrants. For Afro-Caribbean and Bangladeshi men,…
Labour Market Prospects of Less Skilled Workers Over the Recovery
Unemployment among the less skilled has fallen sharply since 1993 but much of this has been because of rising inactivity rather than improved employment. Rising inactivity during a strong employment recovery is unusual and should be a major cause for concern. Less than half of all women without formal qualifications are in work and there has been no improvement relative to other women over the course of the recovery. Among less skilled men, only …
The Labour Market Under New Labour
Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years. Looking behind the 'good news' implied by the lowest headline unemployment ra
Mind the Gap, Please
We examine wages in jobs taken by those out of work—entry jobs—and the characteristics of the individuals who fill them. There are large entry wage gaps relative to other jobs. More importantly, real entry wages have fallen by around 20 log points relative to all other jobs since 1979. One‐quarter of this decline is accounted for by differences in individual and job characteristics and around 40% from an unexplained fall in the position of entry …
Eyes Down for a Full House
This paper contrasts the labor market fortunes of workers in different housing tenures over the past twenty years, focusing on how two major developments--rising inequality and the declining economic position of men--have affected various housing types. The author concentrates on just three housing types, owner occupation, local authority housing together with the housing associations which have taken over many former council accommodation, and t…
Welfare and Work Incentives
Journal Article Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Get access Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Edited by A. B. Atkinson and Mogensen Gunnar Viby. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 324. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828860 3.) Jonathan Wadsworth Jonathan Wadsworth London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journa…
Strike Incidence in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
In British manufacturing during the 1980s, about one in forty wage settlements involved a strike. Using data provided by the Confederation of British Industry, the authors analyze the incidence of strikes in some 6,000 negotiations at the level of the bargaining group. Among their findings are that multi-unionism (the presence in a workplace of more than one union with the authority to bargain) was associated with higher strike incidence than was…
The Art of Full Employment
Unemployment Benefits and Search Effort in the UK Labour Market
In this paper, the impact that receipt of unemployment benefit has on job-search effort is investigated. Utilizing data drawn from the 1984 Labor Force Survey, reduced-form search-effort equations are estimated conditional on the decision to seek work. After controlling for potential selectivity bias, personal characteristics, and demand conditions, those claiming benefit are shown to search more extensively than nonclaimants. Benefit claimants m…
Unemployment and the Inter-Regional Mobility of Labour
In this paper we examine the relation between unemployment and the interregional migration of labour. First, the status of a worker affects mobility: an unemployed worker is more likely to move than an employed one. Second, regional unemployment differentials encourage mobility: the probability that a given worker migrates is higher if the worker lives in a high-unemployment region. Third, at higher overall unemployment rates the probability of m…
Unemployment and Domestic Violence
Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite‐signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic ab…
Unemployment and the Inter-Regional Mobility of Labour
In this paper we examine the relation between unemployment and the interregional migration of labour. First, the status of a worker affects mobility: an unemployed worker is more likely to move than an employed one. Second, regional unemployment differentials encourage mobility: the probability that a given worker migrates is higher if the worker lives in a high-unemployment region. Third, at higher overall unemployment rates the probability of m…
Gay Pay in the UK
This paper attempts, for the first time for the UK, to analyse the earnings of homosexuals and test for the possible existence of sexual orientation discrimination by using decomposition analysis. Homosexuals are identified as individuals living with ‘same‐sex partners’. Gay men and lesbians in our sample both earn more on average than non‐gays. However, we find that the decomposition indicates that homosexual men may be subject to discrimination…
Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level. Theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Strike Incidence in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
In British manufacturing during the 1980s, about one in forty wage settlements involved a strike. Using data provided by the Confederation of British Industry, the authors analyze the incidence of strikes in some 6,000 negotiations at the level of the bargaining group. Among their findings are that multi-unionism (the presence in a workplace of more than one union with the authority to bargain) was associated with higher strike incidence than was…
Eyes Down for a Full House
This paper contrasts the labor market fortunes of workers in different housing tenures over the past twenty years, focusing on how two major developments--rising inequality and the declining economic position of men--have affected various housing types. The author concentrates on just three housing types, owner occupation, local authority housing together with the housing associations which have taken over many former council accommodation, and t…
The Impact of Acquiring Unrestricted Work Authorization on Romanian and Bulgarian Migrants in the United Kingdom
When Romania and Bulgaria (the so-called A2 countries) joined the European Union in 2007, the United Kingdom imposed temporary restrictions on the employment and welfare entitlements of A2 citizens that lasted until January 1, 2014. This article analyzes the impact of the removal of these restrictions on the labor market outcomes and use of welfare benefits of A2 migrants. Applying difference-in-difference analysis to data from the UK's Labour Fo…
Welfare and Work Incentives
Journal Article Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Get access Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Edited by A. B. Atkinson and Mogensen Gunnar Viby. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 324. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828860 3.) Jonathan Wadsworth Jonathan Wadsworth London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journa…
Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain
The advent of any earnings boost, such as provided by the introduction of a minimum wage, might be expected to reduce the supply of low‐paid individuals wanting to hold a second job. This paper uses difference‐in‐differences estimation on a panel of individuals matched across successive Labour Force Surveys around the time of the introduction of the national minimum wage in the United Kingdom in order to estimate the impact of the minimum wage an…
Mind the Gap, Please
We examine wages in jobs taken by those out of work—entry jobs—and the characteristics of the individuals who fill them. There are large entry wage gaps relative to other jobs. More importantly, real entry wages have fallen by around 20 log points relative to all other jobs since 1979. One‐quarter of this decline is accounted for by differences in individual and job characteristics and around 40% from an unexplained fall in the position of entry …
Unemployment Benefits and Search Effort in the UK Labour Market
In this paper, the impact that receipt of unemployment benefit has on job-search effort is investigated. Utilizing data drawn from the 1984 Labor Force Survey, reduced-form search-effort equations are estimated conditional on the decision to seek work. After controlling for potential selectivity bias, personal characteristics, and demand conditions, those claiming benefit are shown to search more extensively than nonclaimants. Benefit claimants m…
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets
The growth of public transport networks in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had profound effects on commuting in the industrialized world, yet the consequences for labor markets during this important period of historical development remains largely unstudied. This paper draws on a unique dataset combining individual commuting and wage information for working-class residents of London, circa 1930, to analyze, for the first time, t…
Unemployment and the Inter-Regional Mobility of Labour
In this paper we examine the relation between unemployment and the interregional migration of labour. First, the status of a worker affects mobility: an unemployed worker is more likely to move than an employed one. Second, regional unemployment differentials encourage mobility: the probability that a given worker migrates is higher if the worker lives in a high-unemployment region. Third, at higher overall unemployment rates the probability of m…
Unemployment Benefits and Search Effort in the UK Labour Market
In this paper, the impact that receipt of unemployment benefit has on job-search effort is investigated. Utilizing data drawn from the 1984 Labor Force Survey, reduced-form search-effort equations are estimated conditional on the decision to seek work. After controlling for potential selectivity bias, personal characteristics, and demand conditions, those claiming benefit are shown to search more extensively than nonclaimants. Benefit claimants m…
Strike Incidence in British Manufacturing in the 1980s
In British manufacturing during the 1980s, about one in forty wage settlements involved a strike. Using data provided by the Confederation of British Industry, the authors analyze the incidence of strikes in some 6,000 negotiations at the level of the bargaining group. Among their findings are that multi-unionism (the presence in a workplace of more than one union with the authority to bargain) was associated with higher strike incidence than was…
The Art of Full Employment
Welfare and Work Incentives
Journal Article Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Get access Welfare and Work Incentives: A North European Perspective. Edited by A. B. Atkinson and Mogensen Gunnar Viby. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1993. Pp. xv + 324. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 828860 3.) Jonathan Wadsworth Jonathan Wadsworth London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journa…
Eyes Down for a Full House
This paper contrasts the labor market fortunes of workers in different housing tenures over the past twenty years, focusing on how two major developments--rising inequality and the declining economic position of men--have affected various housing types. The author concentrates on just three housing types, owner occupation, local authority housing together with the housing associations which have taken over many former council accommodation, and t…
Mind the Gap, Please
We examine wages in jobs taken by those out of work—entry jobs—and the characteristics of the individuals who fill them. There are large entry wage gaps relative to other jobs. More importantly, real entry wages have fallen by around 20 log points relative to all other jobs since 1979. One‐quarter of this decline is accounted for by differences in individual and job characteristics and around 40% from an unexplained fall in the position of entry …
Workless Households and the Recovery
By 1996 the distribution of work across households was more unequal than at any time in the previous 25 years; such that one in five households of working age had no employed adult present. Economic recovery after 1996 has reduced the share of households where no one is in work. Single parent households have been the main beneficiaries. However, the long-term increase in unequal allocation of work across households appears only to have halted ove…
The Labour Market Performance of Ethnic Minorities in the Recovery
Employment rates for British born minorities and immigrants are much lower than those of British born whites with the same age and level of educational attainment. Over the recovery, employment and unemployment differentials narrowed for some, but not all, minority groups relative to British born whites. Employment differentials narrowed more for British born ethnic minority individuals than for immigrants. For Afro-Caribbean and Bangladeshi men,…
Labour Market Prospects of Less Skilled Workers Over the Recovery
Unemployment among the less skilled has fallen sharply since 1993 but much of this has been because of rising inactivity rather than improved employment. Rising inactivity during a strong employment recovery is unusual and should be a major cause for concern. Less than half of all women without formal qualifications are in work and there has been no improvement relative to other women over the course of the recovery. Among less skilled men, only …
The Labour Market Under New Labour
Leading experts examine, for the first time, the impact of New Labour policies on the labour market over the past 5 years. Looking behind the 'good news' implied by the lowest headline unemployment ra
Gay Pay in the UK
This paper attempts, for the first time for the UK, to analyse the earnings of homosexuals and test for the possible existence of sexual orientation discrimination by using decomposition analysis. Homosexuals are identified as individuals living with ‘same‐sex partners’. Gay men and lesbians in our sample both earn more on average than non‐gays. However, we find that the decomposition indicates that homosexual men may be subject to discrimination…
Impact of the Minimum Wage on the Incidence of Second Job Holding in Britain
The advent of any earnings boost, such as provided by the introduction of a minimum wage, might be expected to reduce the supply of low‐paid individuals wanting to hold a second job. This paper uses difference‐in‐differences estimation on a panel of individuals matched across successive Labour Force Surveys around the time of the introduction of the national minimum wage in the United Kingdom in order to estimate the impact of the minimum wage an…
Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level. Theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
The labour market in winter
This text provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath. It contains assessments of the effects of many policies introduced over the last 10 years in employment, education and welfare.
The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages
Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the supply of educated natives have had significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time ser…
Understanding Unemployment
Britain remains an 'economy of unemployment', symptomatic of an inefficient labour market founded on inequalities of locality, sex, race and age. This offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the nature of a continuing crisis.
Unemployment and Domestic Violence
Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts that male and female unemployment have opposite‐signed effects on domestic abuse: an increase in male unemployment decreases the incidence of intimate partner violence, while an increase in female unemployment increases domestic ab…
The Impact of Acquiring Unrestricted Work Authorization on Romanian and Bulgarian Migrants in the United Kingdom
When Romania and Bulgaria (the so-called A2 countries) joined the European Union in 2007, the United Kingdom imposed temporary restrictions on the employment and welfare entitlements of A2 citizens that lasted until January 1, 2014. This article analyzes the impact of the removal of these restrictions on the labor market outcomes and use of welfare benefits of A2 migrants. Applying difference-in-difference analysis to data from the UK's Labour Fo…
Good jobs’, training and skilled immigration
Has skilled immigration into the UK led to a reduction in the training of native‐born workers? To address this concern, this paper describes a theoretical model where immigration can affect the training of native‐born workers both positively and negatively, and where its effects may differ according to the characteristics of the migrant and of the training firm's sector. It then investigates this issue empirically using UK Labour Force Survey dat…
Population Growth, Immigration, and Labor Market Dynamics
This article provides a first synthesis of population flows and labor market dynamics across immigrant and native-born populations. We devise a novel dynamic accounting methodology that integrates population flows from two sources—changes in birth cohort size and immigrant flows—with labor market dynamics. We illustrate the method using data for the United Kingdom, where population flows have been large and cyclical, driven first by the maturatio…
The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labor markets
The growth of public transport networks in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had profound effects on commuting in the industrialized world, yet the consequences for labor markets during this important period of historical development remains largely unstudied. This paper draws on a unique dataset combining individual commuting and wage information for working-class residents of London, circa 1930, to analyze, for the first time, t…
Economics (21 obras) · Labour economics (17 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (13 obras) · Demographic economics (12 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 obras) · Unemployment (9 obras) · Wage (8 obras) · Engineering (7 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 obras)