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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 …The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and …

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

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Homes incorporated : offshore ownership of real estate in the U.K.

Johannesen, Niels; Miethe, Jakob; Weishaar, Daniel - 2022

Ownership of real estate through corporations in offshore tax havens creates opportunities for tax evasion and money laundering and may have undesirable effects in housing markets. In this paper, we study offshore ownership of real estate in the United Kingdom by combining several data sources:...

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VAT notches

Liu, Li; Lockwood, Ben - 2015

We develop a conceptual framework which captures the e¤ect of the VAT system on profit by two effective taxes. This allows (i) predictions of the determinants of voluntary registration and bunching at the registration threshold; (ii) develops a formula for estimating the elasticity of...

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Consequences of the new UK tax exemption system : evidence from micro-level data

Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Ruf, Martin; Wamser, Georg - 2012

Until 2009, the United Kingdom operated a system of worldwide taxation. Taxation of foreign income was deferred until repatriated as dividends, leaving UK-owned multinational firms the possibility of avoiding UK taxation by delaying dividend payments and keeping earnings abroad. In 2009, the UK...

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Where does multinational profit go with territorial taxation? : evidence from the UK

Langenmayr, Dominika; Liu, Li - 2020

In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that profits of UK subsidiaries in...

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Tax and occupancy of business properties : theory and evidence from UK business rates

Lockwood, Ben; Simmler, Martin; Tam, Hiu - 2023

We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates and rents in the UK, using a new data-set, and exploiting exogenous variations in property tax rates from reliefs in the UK system: small business rate relief (SBRR), retail relief and empty property relief. We estimate that...

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Unemployment and domestic violence : theory and evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2013

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The … contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of … domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male and female unemployment have opposite-signed effects on domestic …

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Enterprise zones, poverty, and labor market outcomes : resolving conflicting evidence

Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - 2019

This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...

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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …

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