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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is...

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Returns to Education in Australia

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2007

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking …

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Does Speed Signal Ability? The Impact of Grade Repetitions on Employment and Wages

Brodaty, Thomas; Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Prieto, Ana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the average school-leaving age of students holding the same certificate or degree. We use past school-opening instruments …, and distance-to-the-nearest-college, also measured in the past, when students were entering grade 6, to identify the …

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Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market

Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

Given its signiÖcance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper o§ers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...

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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

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Macroeconomic Policy Issues of the 1990s.

Pitchford, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1992

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSENSUAL INCOMES POLICY: THE PRICES AND INCOMES ACCORD.

CHAPMAN, B.J.; GRUEN, F. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of …

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...

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