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Population sex ratios and violence against women : the long-run effects of sex selection in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017

This paper investigates the consequences of sex imbalance in India's population for violence against women. We match district level administrative crime data by category to age- specific sex ratios in census data across four decades and, to analyse mechanisms, we also use administrative data on...

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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to...

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European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement : is there a change in immigrant self-selection?

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 18 October 2012

not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern Europe. Did the elimination of barrier to immigration have an impact … between EU8 immigrants arrived before and after the enlargement. The elimination of barriers to immigration seems to have …

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What determines attitudes to immigration in European countries? : an analysis at the regional level

Markaki, Yvonni; Longhi, Simonetta - 2012

the determinants of anti-immigration attitudes. We bring together these literatures in a unified framework and identify … testable hypotheses on what characteristics of the individual and of the local environment are likely to have an impact on anti-immigration … analyse anti-immigration attitudes across regions of 24 European countries to explain why people living in different regions …

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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

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Using EU-SILC data for cross-national analysis : strengths, problems and recommendations

Iacovou, Maria; Kaminska, Olena; Levy, Horacio - 2012

The EU's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), launched in 2003, was the first micro-level data set to provide comprehensive data on incomes and other social and economic domains over the enlarged EU. This paper draws on two programmes of research to ask how well the EU-SILC has...

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Gender, ethnicity and household labour in married and cohabiting couples in the UK

Yee Kan, Man; Laurie, Heather - 2016

, education and employment status after accounting for individual and household characteristics. …

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The US labour force participation debacle : learning from the contrast with Britain

Richiardi, Matteo; Nolan, Brian; Kenworthy, Lane - 2018

This paper uses the marked divergence in labour force participation trends between the US and the UK to probe underlying drivers and implications for recent US poor performance. Contrary to a common US narrative, our comparative perspective suggests that the relative decline in US labour force...

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Getting back into work after job loss : the role of partner effects

Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2015

We investigate the reaction of couples to a job loss during periods of growth and recession in the UK focussing on re-employment … of the spouse who lost their job. Re-employment was faster for those with a partner in work, but was not generally …

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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared

Bryan, Mark; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013

We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...

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