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employment and wages in the United Kingdom. It finds that firms can benefit from services trade, through increased employment …Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This …, production and productivity. On average, workers’ wages are also positively impacted by increased services trade. The findings …
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In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and … new trade barriers. Looking across areas, we find that exposure to new Brexit trade barriers is uncorrelated with measures …
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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 … London, partly related to sectoral and trade specialisation. In particular, the most productive regions are specialised in …
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British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse trends in the labour market between 1997/2001 and 2006/2012. The … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …
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employment by means of a regression discontinuity analysis. Because this threshold is known in advance, they investigate the … presence of discontinuities in both the level and the slope of employment probabilities at different ages around the threshold …. Their results indicate that turning 22 does not significantly change the employment probability. However, they find a …
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This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms …, uncovering a number of stylised facts about the firms engaged in international trade in services, their choices of modes of … supply and the links between services trade and manufacturing activities. The report then relates these outcomes to services …
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of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …
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of the British pound vis-a-vis the euro and led to considerable uncertainty about future trade relations between the UK … considerably higher exit rates from exporting to the UK and from the market overall. They also saw greater declines in employment … or for average wages. These findings are robust to controlling for a variety of firm characteristics. …
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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higher trade barriers after Brexit, but at the cost of lower domestic employment. …Services account for one-third of global trade, yet little is known about the impact of trade restrictions on services … trade. To make progress in this area, it is crucial to understand through which Modes services are traded (cross …
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