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New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market
Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - 2021
in claimant unemployment in the UK between 2004 and 2006 …
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Expecting Brexit and UK Migration : Should I Go?
Di Iasio, Valentina; Wahba, Jackline - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately after the UK referendum of June 2016. We also...
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The Brexit Referendum and Three Types of Regret
Drinkwater, Stephen; Jennings, Colin - 2022
In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UKâ 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 the light of the result), (ii) whether non-voters...
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The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market
Blanchflower, David; Lawton, Helen - 2021
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...
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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Elsner, Benjamin - 2012
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK...
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Age structure and the UK unemployment rate
Barwell, Richard - In: Quarterly bulletin / Bank of England 40 (2000) 3, pp. 257-265
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Non-employment and labour availability
Jones, Jerry; Joyce, Michael A. S.; Thomas, Jonathan P. - In: Quarterly bulletin / Bank of England 43 (2003) 3, pp. 291-303
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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the UK?
Bell, David N.F. - 2009
This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764644
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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment : Evidence from British Panel Data
Brown, Sarah - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and … reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration …
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New Evidence on Disability Benefit Claims in the UK : The Role of Health and the Local Labour Market
Roberts, Jennifer - 2019
time the UK labour market has also evolved and in particular now has an historically low level of unemployment, accompanied …
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