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Money Can't Buy EU Love : European Funds and the Brexit Referendum
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2016
We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that past European transfers have played virtually no role in...
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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila - 2008
various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter …
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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
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On the Causes of Brexit
Arnorsson, Agust - 2016
We analyse the voting pattern in the June 23rd referendum on the continued participation of the United Kingdom in the European Union and evaluate the reasons for the results. We find that regions where GDP per capita is low, a high proportion of people have low education, a high proportion is...
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The impact of fathers' job loss during the recession of the 1980s on their children's educational attainment and labour market outcomes
Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey; Nasim, Bilal - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 33 (2012) 2, pp. 237-264
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Non-employment and labour availability
Jones, Jerry; Joyce, Michael A. S.; Thomas, Jonathan P. - In: Quarterly bulletin / Bank of England 43 (2003) 3, pp. 291-303
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Age structure and the UK unemployment rate
Barwell, Richard - In: Quarterly bulletin / Bank of England 40 (2000) 3, pp. 257-265
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Why social security expenditure in the 1980s has risen faster than expected : the role of unemployment
Disney, Richard - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 11 (1990) 1, pp. 1-20
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Male unemployment and women's work
Dilnot, Andrew W. - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 8 (1987) 3, pp. 1-16
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Has the EMU Reduced Wage Growth and Unemployment? Testing a Model of Trade Union Behaviour
Mikosch, Heiner - 2013
(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …
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