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This paper analyzes the effect of severity of disability on labour force participation by using a self-reported work … current participation. The results suggest that net of persistence and unobserved heterogeneity, differences in severity …
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Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies arising from informational asymmetries between expert sellers and customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if customers can verify the quality received, verifiability fails to yield efficiency in experiments with...
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choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household data on food consumption, we estimate the …
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In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater choice – through the introduction of choice based letting – for households accessing an...
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Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … have been long standing unresolved identification issues in the literature. In keeping with the limited existing UK …
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females in the UK have a higher probability to participate in the labor force than non-white females. Non-white females spend …
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The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the … inflow – one of the largest in British history – on the UK labour market. We use new monthly micro level data and an … empirical approach that ascertains which particular labour markets in the UK – with varying degrees of natives' mobility and …
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outcomes and the material well-being of migrants. We investigate whether individuals who migrate within the UK become happier …
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activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their …
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