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Does over-education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating role of workers' origin and immigrants' background

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …

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Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Portes, Jonathan - 2021

I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...

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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?

Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015

results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …

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Migration and productivity in the UK : an analysis of employee payroll data

Nam, Hoseung; Portes, Jonathan - 2023

We investigate the impact of immigration on productivity in the UK, using newly published ONS data on employees of non …-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …

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Charitable bequests and wealth at death

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John - 2012

Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest decision and to examine the evidence for Great Britain provided by new data on estates. The novelty of...

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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour

Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van - 2011

Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...

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Partner (dis)agreement on moving desires and the subsequent moving behaviour of couples

Coulter, Rory; Ham, Maarten van; Feijten, Peteke - 2011

Residential mobility decisions are known to be made at the household level. However, most empirical analyses of residential mobility relate moving behaviour to the housing and neighbourhood satisfaction and pre-move thoughts of individuals. If partners in a couple do not share evaluations of...

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Can anyone be "The" one? : Evidence on mate selection from speed dating

Belot, Michèle (contributor); … - 2006

Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...

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Are children decision-makers within the household?

Dauphin, Anyck; El Lahga, AbdelRahmen; Fortin, Bernard; … - 2008

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the "caring preferences" of their...

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Working hard in the wrong place : a mismatch-based explanation to the UK productivity puzzle

Patterson, Christina; Şahin, Ayşegül; Topa, Giorgio; … - 2016

The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession …. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers … disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where productivity is relatively low, hires are concentrated in the wrong sectors, and the …

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