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Who Got the Brexit Blues? Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effect of Brexit on Subjective Wellbeing in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Plagnol, Anke C.; Frijters, Paul; … - 2017
wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a …. The initial positive subjective wellbeing effect of the Brexit vote was particularly pronounced for male and older … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …
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International Student Applications in the United Kingdom after Brexit
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Romiti, Agnese - 2021
(henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United Kingdom. Using administrative data spanning … from 2013 through 2019, along with a quasi-experimental approach, we find evidence of Brexit curtailing the growth rate of … student exchanges to research, development and growth, further research on the implications of Brexit for UK universities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597393
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Wage inequality, linkages and FDI
Driffield, Nigel; Girma, Sourafel; Henry, Michael; … - 2010
This paper extends the existing literature on FDI and wage inequality. We do this in two ways. Firstly, we incorporate more precise measures of inward investment into the model, by allowing for differences in the effects between horizontal and vertical FDI. Secondly, after establishing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269496
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of place based policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329021
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290016
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Resources and standards in urban schools
Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2007
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative Excellence in Cities which has been a flagship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268189
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Does money matter for schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2008
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268952
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Workers made idle by company strikes and the British disease
Hart, Robert A. - 2009
The strikes' literature is dominated by the causes and effects of strike action as they relate directly to strikers themselves. This paper considers another important group of affected workers - those individuals incidentally made idle as a result of the strike action of others. Using a unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269119
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The long-term effects of job search requirements: evidence from the UK JSA reform
Petrongolo, Barbara - 2008
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related administrative hurdle. Search theory predicts that such changes should raise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269165
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour: a Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
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