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Labour market effects of Eastern European migration in Wales
Lemos, Sara - 2010
The enlargement of the European Union in May 2004 triggered a relatively large and rapid migration inflow into Wales … effect of migration inflows on the labour market. We found little evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed … to a fall in wages or a rise in claimant unemployment in Wales between 2004 and 2006. In particular, we found no evidence …
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Wage differences between polish and romanian intra-EU migrants in a flexi-secure labour market : an over-time perspective
Felbo-Kolding, Jonas; Leschke, Janine - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 37 (2023) 4, pp. 877-896
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327044
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On the utility representation of asymmetric single-peaked preferences*
Mora, Francisco Martinez; Puy, M. Socorro - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
We introduce two natural types of asymmetric single-peaked preferences, which we name biased-above and biased-below, depending on whether the asymmetry (or preference-bias) favors alternatives above or below the peak. We de.ne a rich family of utility functions, the generalized distance-metric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800208
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The determinants and electoral consequences of asymmetric preferences
Martínez-Mora, Francisco; Puy, M. Socorro - In: European Journal of Political Economy 33 (2014) C, pp. 85-97
This paper studies two widely used models of political competition – citizen-candidate and probabilistic voting – to investigate the impact that asymmetries in single-peaked preferences have on two-party electoral competition. In a two-candidate equilibrium of the citizen–candidate model,...
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Off-the-peak preferences over government size*
Martínez-Mora, Francisco; Puy, M. Socorro - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2010
We study the political consequences of policy preferences which are non-symmetric around the peak. While the usual assumption of symmetric preferences is innocuous in political equilibria with plat-forms convergence, it is not neutral when candidates are differentiated. We show that a larger...
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Off-the-peak preferences over government size
Martínez-Mora, Francisco; Puy, M. Socorro - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2009
In this paper, we analyze the political consequences derived from policy preferences which are non-symmetric around the peak. While the assumption of symmetric preferences is innocuous in political equi- libria with platforms convergence, it is not neutral when candidates are differentiated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513038
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Income Taxation : Is Progressivity Fostered by the Left and Hampered by the Right?
Puy, M. Socorro - 2016
This study examines the strategic use of progressive income tax reforms in retaining political incumbents. We propose an incumbent -- challenger model in which parties care about winning the elections and implementing their ideal level of public good. The incumbent first selects a certain income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990638
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Government Employment and Wages and Labor Market Performance
Demekas, Dimitri G.; Kontolemis, Zenon G. - 2021
Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces...
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Outmigration and income assimilation during the first post-EU-enlargement migrants’ first decade in Sweden
Ruist, Joakim - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011625709
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EU enlargement and the wage effects of apprentice immigration in Germany
Wittek, Bernhard - In: Essays on labor migration and vocational education and …, (pp. 84-182). 2021
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