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On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...
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This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one - Norway - did not join the EU. Our synthetic difference-in-differences estimates on...
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...
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The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
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wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a … preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … 5) and job uncertainty significantly predicting the preference for a Leave vote. Post-referendum, those with leave …
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We provide causal evidence of the impact of the Brexit referendum vote on hate crime in the United Kingdom (UK). Using … Brexit referendum led to an increase in hate crime by around 15-25%. This effect was concentrated in the first quarter after … the referendum and was larger in areas that voted to leave the European Union (EU). We also provide evidence against the …
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In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UK’s hugely significant referendum on EU membership … that was held in June 2016. These are, (i) whether leave voters at the referendum subsequently regretted their choice (in … individuals were more likely to indicate that it is everyone’s duty to vote following the referendum. We find evidence in favour …
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decision affected EU-UK migration patterns. We exploit the Brexit referendum as a natural experiment and employ a (synthetic … referendum made the UK a less attractive destination and that the EU migrants already in the UK were encouraged to obtain British …
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We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation … exposure to the UK market before the referendum. Our findings do not point to a significant effect of the referendum on Irish …
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In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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