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We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …
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We study the impact of the Brexit referendum on Irish exporters to the UK. The referendum triggered a sharp devaluation … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048212
This study explores the impact of export shocks on firms and re-aggregates results to derive distributional effects on … outcome variables – labour productivity, employment and wages. In a second step, an illustrative set of changes in trading … relationships generate sectoral export shocks, which are simulated with the OECD METRO model of trade and subsequently fed into …
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The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the … working in Portugal would have evolved if the Remain vote had won the referendum. Our results suggest that the Brexit … individuals with temporary employment contracts. This reduction is explained by the decrease in the number of incomers. We also …
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We use the World Input Output Database (WIOD) to estimate the potential employment effects of a hard Brexit in 43 … hard Brexit. The absolute effects are largest in big EU countries which have close trade relationships with the UK like … like China, for example. The relative effects (in percent of total employment) are largest in Malta and Ireland. UK …
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; secondly, wage compression is linked to labor market outcomes in terms of employment. Compressed wage structure (usually caused …
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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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