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This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...
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We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. We structurally estimate these … spillovers and show that their relative importance grows as the nominal minimum wage becomes less binding. Subsequent analysis …
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century? After years of inadequate investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation, there are longstanding structural …
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The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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Continental Europe (8%). This share has been rising steadily since the late 1970s, mainly due to labour income (wages), but also … inheritance) taxation, closing loopholes for capital income (e.g., non-domiciled residents), and increasing skills, especially for …
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This paper makes use of the substantial information about the psychological and behavioural development of children by age ten in the 1970 Cohort to predict later, economic outcomes, namely qualifications, employment and earnings. It is found that this previously unobserved individual...
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much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average. Immigrants, especially in recent years, tend to be younger and …
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have been exaggerated. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on average … have experienced greater downward pressure on wages and greater competition for jobs than others, but these effects still …
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still not, on average, materialised. It is hard to find evidence of much displacement of UK workers or lower wages, on …
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wages and living standards, productivity and business, Europe, the NHS, schools, tuition fees, gender gaps, urban and …
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