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We show that investors acquire more public information about firms to which they are more socially proximate. On average, a standard deviation increase in the Social Connectedness Index (Bailey et al., 2018) between a firm's headquarter county and a searcher county is associated with 30% more...
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analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a … neighborhood employment rate increases the probability of having a job six months after displacement by 0.9 percentage points. The …
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-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …
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, work hours, and monthly earnings, while in contrast home-based self-employment increased among wives – both in the network …
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Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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horizon (3 years). The employment effects of this policy are estimated using a synthetic control approach on Labour Force … past the 15th percentile, but not all remained employed. Employment losses were found mostly among younger workers, at … magnitudes similar to previous elasticities. Newer to the literature, regional employment losses were found mostly outside of …
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In January 2020, the UK government formally announced its intention to create a number of Freeports across the UK, with the aim of promoting job creation and regeneration, boosting trade, investment and innovation, and supporting the 'levelling up' agenda. The Freeports offer various tax and...
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How have employment, earnings and incomes performed in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK? What drives …
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explores how the new claimants compare with those who began claims before the COVID-19 pandemic, the geography of new claims …
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