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Does Strict Employment Protection Legislation Influence the Rate of Workplace Accidents? (2019)
Journal Article
Radulescu, R., & Robson, M. (2020). Does Strict Employment Protection Legislation Influence the Rate of Workplace Accidents?. Manchester School, 88(1), 91-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12276

This paper explores the correlation between employment protection legislation (EPL) and the rate of workplace accidents, using a theoretical model and data for OECD countries. EPL has been rolled back in most OECD countries since the mid-80s. In para... Read More about Does Strict Employment Protection Legislation Influence the Rate of Workplace Accidents?.

Does labour market flexibility matter for investment? A study of manufacturing in the OECD. (2013)
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Radulescu, R., & Robson, M. (2013). Does labour market flexibility matter for investment? A study of manufacturing in the OECD. Applied Economics, 45(5), 581-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2011.607633

This study examines whether a more flexible labour market – defined here in terms of the strictness of labour regulations regarding the flexibility of employers to adjust levels of employment in response to changing economic conditions – helps to pro... Read More about Does labour market flexibility matter for investment? A study of manufacturing in the OECD..

Using seen examination questions in economics: an evaluation. (2012)
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Reimann, N., & Robson, M. (2013). Using seen examination questions in economics: an evaluation. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 37(2), 224-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2011.645449

This paper presents a detailed quantitative analysis of the use of seen questions within examinations in Economics option modules at one UK university. 4622 marks for seen and unseen questions awarded over a period of three years were analysed; the i... Read More about Using seen examination questions in economics: an evaluation..

Structural Change, Employment Specialization and Regional Labour Market Performance: Evidence for the UK (2009)
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Robson, M. (2009). Structural Change, Employment Specialization and Regional Labour Market Performance: Evidence for the UK. Applied Economics, 41(3), 275-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840601007278

While structural change and regional differences in the pattern of employment specialization are widely perceived to be significant factors in accounting for disparities in the labour market performance of regions in the United Kingdom, there have be... Read More about Structural Change, Employment Specialization and Regional Labour Market Performance: Evidence for the UK.

Trade Unions, Wage Bargaining Coordination and Foreign Direct Investment (2008)
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Radulescu, R., & Robson, M. (2008). Trade Unions, Wage Bargaining Coordination and Foreign Direct Investment. LABOUR, 22(4), 661-678. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00430.x

Conventional wisdom is that a high trade union bargaining strength and a system of coordinated wage bargaining reduce the attractiveness of an economy as a location for foreign direct investment, although there is limited evidence for this. The paper... Read More about Trade Unions, Wage Bargaining Coordination and Foreign Direct Investment.

Explaining international variations in self-employment : Evidence from a panel of OECD countries (2004)
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Parker, S., & Robson, M. (2004). Explaining international variations in self-employment : Evidence from a panel of OECD countries. Southern Economic Journal, 71(2), 287-301

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) data from 1972 to 1996 reveals substantial differences in the levels and trends of self-employment rates across countries. This article uses recently developed panel integration and cointeg... Read More about Explaining international variations in self-employment : Evidence from a panel of OECD countries.

Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment? (2003)
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Robson, M. (2003). Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment?. Small Business Economics, 21(3), 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1025742423308

Using recently developed indicators of the strictness of employment protection legislation in OECD countries, the paper examines the issue of whether strict employment protection legislation may promote self-employment by encouraging employers to con... Read More about Does stricter employment protection legislation promote self-employment?.

Housing markets and regional unemployment flows in Great Britain (2003)
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Robson, M. (2003). Housing markets and regional unemployment flows in Great Britain. Manchester School, 71(2), 132-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9957.00340

Over the past 20 years, there has been a great deal of interest from academic economists and policymakers in the UK in the contribution of the housing market to regional disparities in unemployment. However, despite a considerable body of research, t... Read More about Housing markets and regional unemployment flows in Great Britain.

Regional variations in the competitiveness of unemployed job-seekers and the rate of outflows from unemployment (2001)
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Robson, M. (2001). Regional variations in the competitiveness of unemployed job-seekers and the rate of outflows from unemployment. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63(1), 61-90. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0084.00209

The paper examines the role of variations in the competitiveness of unemployed jobseekers in leading to regional variations in the rate of outflows from unemployment, and attempts to identify the factors responsible for regional variations in the sha... Read More about Regional variations in the competitiveness of unemployed job-seekers and the rate of outflows from unemployment.