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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371916
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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data
Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703499
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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction: An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries
Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884245
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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services
Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959530
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959793
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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959839
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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of "non-graduate job" employment 6 months and 42...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369115
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Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
van Ham, Maarten; Williamson, Lee; Feijten, Peteke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine rigorously whether the Right to Buy legislation did indeed 'free-up' those in social housing who bought...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466450
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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371871
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Reaching High: Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK
Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics university status. Using the British Household Panel Survey and accounting for different sources of selection bias, we show that wage differentials between university and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010786984