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In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce …
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or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …
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In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...
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Intergroup conflicts represent one of the most pressing problems facing human society. Sudden spikes in aggressive behavior, including pogroms, often take place during periods of economic hardship or health pandemics, but little is known about the underlying mechanism behind such change in...
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Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for many aspects of life with differential impacts across the population. The lack of timely...
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Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement …
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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 … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …
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This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the … gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership … leads FDI into the host economy to be about 60% higher for investment from outside the EU, and around 50% higher for intra-EU …
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This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...
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investigations on the effects of immigration from new EU member states and Eastern Partnership countries on the economies of old EU … EU member states on old member states' GDP, GDP per capita, and employment rate and a negative effect on output per …‐to‐labor ratio. These results mark an economic success of the EU enlargements and EU's free movement of workers …
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