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Labour Market Slack in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

David N.F. Bell  and
David G. Blanchflower
David N.F. Bell*
Affiliation:
University of Stirling, IZA and CPC
David G. Blanchflower*
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, University of Stirling, Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CESifo and NBER
*
E-mail: d.n.f.bell@stirling.ac.uk
E-mail: David.G.Blanchflower@dartmouth.edu
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 229 , August 2014 , pp. F4 - F11
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Copyright © 2014 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Footnotes

The authors would like to thank Martin Weale for providing them with details of his analysis and calculations.

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