Rebecca Riley

Publication List Details

Period

1999 - 2007

Number

23

Co-Authors

Equilibrium Unemployment and Labour Market Flows in the UK 1 (2007)

San Domenico (fi, C° R. Barrell, R. Riley, Badia Fiesolana, Badia Fiesolana, Ray Barrell, ...

Abstract We argue that equilibrium unemployment has varies in the UK over the last twenty years, and that time series econometric methods have not always been suited to uncovering its evolution....

Skill heterogeneity and equilibrium unemployment (2007)

Riley, Rebecca, Young, Garry

Opportunities facing skilled and unskilled workers diverged over the last quarter of the twentieth century in the UK. We develop an empirical framework consistent with these trends that highlights...

EU enlargement and migration: Assessing the macroeconomic impacts (2007)

Ray Barrell, John Fitzgerald, Rebecca Riley

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of the migration that followed the enlargement of the EU in May 2004. At that time the EU was expanded to include 10 New Member States (NMS)...

The Returns to General versus Job-Specific Skills: the Role of Information and Communication Technology (2006)

Simon Kirby, Rebecca Riley

This paper examines the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the return paid to two different types of skill: general skills, acquired through schooling and work experience,...

Non-linear Modelling of Household Consumption: an Examination of a Closed-form Life-Cycle Model (2003)

Rebecca Riley, Martin Weale

We use successive datasets from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey to estimate a closed form consumption function for households facing uncertain future income. The closed form is derived from a...

The Macroeconomic Impact of the New Deal for Young People (2001)

Rebecca Riley, Garry Young, Dominic Rice, Florence Hubert, Nigel Pain, Martin Weale, ...

The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is one of the main components of the UK government’s Welfare-to-Work strategy aimed at raising employment and reducing benefit dependency. It combines elements...

Skill Heterogeneity and Equilibrium Unemployment

Rebecca Riley, Garry Young

A framework for the analysis of growth and unemployment is developed in a fully specified macroeconomic model, taking account of differences in skills across the workforce. Supply conditions in the...

The external returns to education: UK evidence using repeated cross-sections

Simon Kirby, Rebecca Riley

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with industry level data we estimate the external return to schooling for a repeated cross-section of individuals in the UK over the period 1994-2004. We find...

EU enlargement and migration: Assessing the macroeconomic impacts

Ray Barrell, Rebecca Riley, Fitzgerald, J.

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of the migration that followed the enlargement of the EU in May 2004. At that time the EU was expanded to include 10 New Member States (NMS)...

EU Enlargement and Migration: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts

Ray Barrell, John FitzGerald, Rebecca Riley

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of the migration that followed the enlargement of the EU in May 2004. At that time the EU was expanded to include 10 New Member States (NMS)...

The macroeconomic impact of the New Deal for Young People

Rebecca Riley, Garry Young

The New Deal for Young People (NDYP) is one of the main components of the UK government’s Welfare-to-Work strategy aimed at raising employment and reducing benefit dependency. It combines elements...

Non-linear Modelling of Household Consumption: an Examination of a Closed-Form Life-Cycle Model

Rebecca Riley, Martin R. Weale

We use successive datasets from the U.K. Family Expenditure Survey to estimate a closed form consumption function for households facing uncertain future income. The closed form is derived from a...

Does welfare-to-work policy increase employment?: Evidence from the UK New Deal for Young People

Rebecca Riley, Garry Young

Welfare-to-work programmes were implemented in several OECD countries during the 1990s. With these programmes, entitlement to unemployment related benefits is conditional on taking up help in finding...

The Returns to General versus Job-Specific Skills: the Role of Information and Communication Technology

Simon Kirby, Rebecca Riley

This paper examines the effect of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the return paid to two different types of skill: general skills, acquired through schooling and work experience,...

Skill heterogeneity and equilibrium unemployment

Rebecca Riley, Garry Young

Opportunities facing skilled and unskilled workers diverged over the last quarter of the twentieth century in the UK. We develop an empirical framework consistent with these trends that highlights...

EU Enlargement and Migration: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts

Ray Barrell, John FitzGerald, Rebecca Riley

This paper considers the macroeconomic effects of the migration that followed the enlargement of the EU in May 2004. At that time the EU was expanded to include 10 New Member States (NMS)...

The external returns to education: UK evidence using repeated cross-sections

Kirby, Simon, Riley, Rebecca

Augmenting a Mincerian earnings function with industry level data we estimate the external return to schooling for a repeated cross-section of individuals in the UK over the period 1994-2004. For men...