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This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … macroeconomic variables - UK GDP growth and GDP at origin - are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of … result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
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More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...
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Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February …
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In this paper, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on labour mar- ket outcomes in Canada. Following a pre … Canada. We find that COVID-19 had drastic negative effects on labour market outcomes, with the largest effects for younger …
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Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect …
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immigrants living in the UK. Using the national representative UK Household Longitudinal Study (Understanding Society) data and … improvement in both mental health and life satisfaction relative to the UK natives. The results are robust to several robustness … frustration felt by Non-EU immigrants results mainly of the toughened visa restrictions enforced since 2010 by the UK Government. …
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driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19 …
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This paper is the first attempt to study the causal impact of "Brexit", namely the UK's departure from the European … Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement. Interestingly …
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This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...
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This paper evaluates two hypothetical budget-neutral reforms that shift resources from family tax expenditures to family cash transfers. We evaluate these reforms using a structural labor supply model based on the microsimulation EUROMOD model and EUSILC data. We find that both reforms have an...
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