This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk in labour income and fluctuations in aggregate labour … BHPS sub-sample of Understanding Society for 2010-2014. We measure idiosyncratic risk in labour income by the relevant … moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …

estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment … income lost. Female and younger recipients, as well as those with more subjectively defined disabilities, were able to …

market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income … the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … inflow of the foreign-born population that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We also control for a series of fixed effects …

effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by … nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed inflow of the foreign-born population that is exogenous to local … upward mobility their wage income also increases with a 1-2 years lag. We find no evidence of an increase in their …