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Services offshoring and wages: evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK

Leonardi, Marco - 2010

richer workers demand more low skill-intensive services (such as cleaning and personal services) but also more skill …-intensive services (such as education and professional services). The parametrization of a simple model suggests that this induced demand …

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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom?s international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938

Hart, Robert A. - 2000

On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Work hours constraints and health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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