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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...

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Real wages and hours in the great recession : evidence from firms and their entry-level jobs

Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2017

part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages … of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …

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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...

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Incentives, shocks or signals : labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2013

state pension age was increased to 61 and their probability of unemployment increased by 1.3 percentage points. The …

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Labour supply effects of increasing the female state pension age in the UK from age 60 to 62

Cribb, Jonathan; Emmerson, Carl; Tetlow, Gemma - 2014

In a previous study we examined the impact on employment of increasing the state pension age for women from age 60 to 61 (Cribb, Emmerson and Tetlow, 2013). This short paper incorporates more recent data, now available up to March 2014, which allows us to study the impact on employment over the...

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Getting the unemployed back to work : the role of targeted wage subsidies

Bell, Brian; Blundell, Richard W.; Van Reenen, John - 1999

This paper examines alternative approaches to wage subsidy programmes. It does this in the context of a recent active labour market reform for the young unemployed in Britain. This "New Deal" reform and the characteristics of the target group are examined in detail. We discuss theoretical...

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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of the month, and of those born on Friday the 13th, differ from the outcomes of people born on more auspicious days. In many European countries, including the UK, such days are...

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