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Alcohol-related morbidity and mortality following involuntary job loss
Eliason, Marcus - 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the association between involuntary job loss and alcohol-attributable morbidity and mortality. Swedish-linked employee-employer data were used to identify all establishment closures during 1990-1999, as well as the employees who were laid off and a...
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Union Wage and Job Loss : A Cross-national Comparison
Wang, Xiupeng - 2020
What members do unions protect? This question is relevant to an ongoing debate about union wage distribution. This paper investigates how unionization affects the relationship between involuntary job loss and a worker's unobservable ability. Taking advantage of detailed micro-level panel data...
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Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss : Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs
Cederlöf, Jonas - 2021
This paper studies the consequences of job loss for workers, and explores differences in the cost of displacement using a novel research design. While the previous literature relies on mass layoffs and plant closures for identification, I exploit discontinuities in the likelihood of displacement...
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The impact of possible migration scenarios after "Brexit" on the state pension system
Armstrong, Angus; Van de Ven, Justin - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 4, pp. 1-13
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impacts of changes in migration flows—in particular, those resulting from … possible migration policy changes after a UK exit (‘Brexit’) from the European Union (EU)—on the finances of the UK state …
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Targeting migration with limited control : the case of the UK and the EU
Rienzo, Cinzia; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 16, pp. 1-19
Since 2010 the UK Government has aimed to reduce net-migration. The UK Government cannot restrict EEA migration, and it … has focused instead on restricting non-EEA migration, including closing routes intended for non-EEA high-skilled workers …. We identify a possible substitution effect in this context: restricting one type of migration may lead to an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417169
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How does immigration affect natives' task-specialisation? : evidence from the United Kingdom
Bisello, Martina - 2014
In this paper we empirically test the predictions of Peri and Sparber (2009) model of comparative advantage in tasks performance to evaluate whether in the United Kingdom immigration affected the way natives specialise in the task they perform on the job. Using Labour Force Survey and UK Skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252154
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822460
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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293794
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The effect of Ukrainian refugees on the local labour markets : the case of Czechia
Postepska, Agnieszka; Voloshyna, Anastasiia - 2024
evidence that the influx of refugees had no economically meaningful impact on employment, unemployment, or inactivity rates … Ukrainian refugees worldwide. The swift enactment of the Lex Ukraine Act granted the refugees benefits typically reserved for … short-term impact of the influx of the Ukrainian refugees on the labour market outcomes of locals in Czechia. Using several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527032
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IT Induced Employment Irregularities and Deskilling : Impacts on Temporary Worker Welfare
Mishra, Abhay - 2020
Temporary and part-time workers constitute an important and increasing segment of the workforce in the United States. In this theoretical paper, we examine the impact of IT-induced employment irregularities and deskilling on physical and mental health and economic well-being of such workers. We...
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