Job Duration and the Macro-evaluation of Employment Policy

The Example of UK Regional Policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10862425
AutoresColin Wren (0000-0001-5117-9379, Newcastle University, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas573-580
Data de publicação1993-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420989320080561
OpenAlexW2143220368
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas11

The paper argues that in order to use macro-evaluation techniques to calculate the employment effect of a policy over some sub-period after policy commencement, it is necessary to determine the rate at which policy jobs are lost. Crucially, it is the rate at which jobs cease to be attributable to policy which is relevant, rather than the rate at which jobs are lost to firms. This point is demonstrated for the case of UK regional policy over the period 1971-81. It is shown that the measured employment effect of this policy is highly sensitive to assumptions about the rate of policy jobs loss, but insensitive to the period over which jobs exist prior to being lost. Under reasonable assumptions, it is argued that the employment effect of this policy over the 1970s was twice that previously thought

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