Stephen R G Jones

Biographic Data

ID1167745
NAMEStephen R G Jones
GIVEN NAMESStephen R G
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES S R G
AFFILIATIONSMcMaster University, Hamilton
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX3

  • Waiting for Recovery

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R Jones et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy2020Cited by: 7References: 2

    The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data sugge…

  • Older Workers in the New Economy

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R JonesARTICLECanadian Public Policy2009Cited by: 2References: 1

    I consider the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Older Workers (2008) with regard to Wage Insurance (WI) and Employment Insurance (EI). I argue that there is scope for a limited demonstration project of WI to further assess feasibility and effectiveness, but note that a number of design issues remain open. I assess the fundamental review of EI proposed in the Panel report, concluding that many of the proposals amount to a form of experience …

  • Unemployment and Nonemployment

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2006

    The determination of how to distinguish between unemployment and nonparticipation is important and controversial. The conventional approach employs a priori reasoning together with self-reported current behavior. This paper employs an evidence-based classification of labor force status using information about the consequences of the behavior of the nonemployed. We find that marginal attachment—defined as desiring work, although not searching—is a…

  • Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R Jones et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1998Cited by: 1

    Stephen R. G. Jones, W. Craig Riddell, Gross Flows of Labour in Canada and the United States, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 24, Supplement 1: CERF/CSLR Conference on the Canada-US Unemployment Rate Gap / FCSE/CENV Conférence sur l'écart entre les taux de chômage au Canada et aux États-Unis (Feb., 1998), pp. S103-S120

  • The Persistence of Unemployment

    Pierre Fortin, Stephen R G Jones et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Policy1997

  • A Dynamic Model of Union Membership and Employment

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R Jones et al.ARTICLEEconomica1994

    This paper incorporates the ideas that a union maximizes an intertemporal objective function, that it recognizes some link between present wage and employment levels and future membership, and that it has an interest in the level of membership attained. The authors model membership decisions with stochastic demand and a differential layoff rate for union and nonunion workers. Membership dynamics are behavioral in that membership increases when th…

  • Cyclical and Seasonal Properties of Canadian Gross Flows of Labour

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R JonesARTICLECanadian Public Policy1993Cited by: 1References: 1

    Although net monthly changes in unemployment and employment are relatively small, the level of gross flows among the three conventional labor force states, Employment, Unemployment, and Not-in-the-Labor-Force, tends to be very large. This paper reviews Canadian evidence on monthly gross flows of labor for the period since 1976. It analyzes both seasonal and cyclical components of these flows and presents comparison with international evidence. It…

  • Manufacturing Knowledge

    Stephen R G JonesARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1992

  • Worker Interdependence and Output

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R JonesARTICLEAmerican Sociological Review1990Cited by: 10References: 10

    Recent work has called into question the interpretation of the evidence from the classic Hawthorne studies, arguing that external factors suffice to explain the variation in workers' output found at the Hawthorne plant. In contrast, this paper demonstrates that, allowing for a wide range of other factors mediated by the social interactions in the working group, workers' productivity levels in the Hawthorne plant were indeed interdependent. Using …

  • Reservation Wages and the Cost of Unemployment

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R JonesARTICLEEconomica1989Cited by: 2

    This paper studies direct evidence on reservation wages reported in Great Britain in 1982 to assess (1) whether such asking prices are "high" and (2) whether variations in these reservation wages are related to differences in measures of the subjective and objective costs of unemployment. A majority overall (and for various subgroups) reports reservation wages no higher than own past wages adjusted for earnings growth, but there is nonetheless co…

  • Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations

    Stephen R G Jones, Stephen R Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1987Cited by: 3References: 2

    Journal Article Demand Disturbances and Aggregate Fluctuations: The Implications of Near Rationality Get access Stephen R. G. Jones, Stephen R. G. Jones University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James H. Stock James H. Stock University of British Columbia Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal,…

  • Unequal Treatment

    Frank Cowell, F A Cowell et al.ARTICLEEconomica1985

  • The Economics of Conformism

    Robert Sugden, Stephen R G Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1985