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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that …
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into differences in the probability of employment, occupation and earnings for adults in the UK. We also examine whether …
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A significant gap exists in the UK between the employment rate for Ethnic Minorities and that for Whites. From a policy … discriminatory behaviour in the labour market. In this paper, we use administrative data to estimate ethnic differences in employment …
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for introducing them is to make employment more likely for those who currently do not work. Given the extent of the …
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An increasing proportion of people towards the bottom of the UK's income distribution are in a household where someone is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem...
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of beneficiaries. Leveraging age and health cutoffs in the reassessment, the paper estimates employment responses to loss … benefits in the post-reform period. The consequences of leaving disability insurance differed sharply by pre-reform employment … without pre-reform employment did. The gains of the reform in activating beneficiaries were small and strongly driven by pre …
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the potential to substantially transform labor markets and employment, especially in countries with a low level of …
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This paper aims at giving first insights into the interconnectedness of violent conflict, employment and …
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This article investigates to what extent innovation has contributed to the development of employment growth and … a gross employment growth which has been larger in German manufacturing than in other European countries. This effect is … market shares. Taking the substitution of existing with new products into account, it turns out the net employment growth due …
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