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intermediate rates have been driven by changes in regional employment, only partly offset by labour force changes. Regions …
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geography models of how external trade affects the spatial distribution of employment. Our results suggest that accession … increase employment while increased import competition decreases employment. …
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This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Economic Community, using a newly constructed dataset that gives a detailed breakdown of the United Kingdom’s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit...
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This paper considers the spatial distribution of economic activities in the European Union. It has three main aims. (i) To describe the data that is available in the EU and give some idea of the rich spatial data sets that are fast becoming available at the national level. (ii) To present...
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This paper examines how the geography of UK international trade has changed since the UK¿s accession to the European Economic Community using a newly constructed data set that gives a detailed breakdown of the UK¿s imports and exports by both port of entry and exit and commodity. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071343
This paper considers the impact of public sector employment on local labour markets. Using English data at the Local … Authority level for 2003–2007 we find that public sector employment has no identifiable effect on total private sector … employment. However, public sector employment does affect the sectoral composition of the private sector. Specifically, each …
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of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …
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labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …
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countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …
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