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Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data

Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

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The Impact of Union Dissolution on Moving Distances and Destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom

Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of "non-graduate job" employment 6 months and 42...

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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....

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Community Entrepreneurship in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Comparing UK Community Enterprises with US Community Development Corporations

Varady, David P.; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Through a review of the recent American community development literature, this paper tests the assertion that British community enterprises (CEs) are fundamentally similar to American community development corporations (CDCs), and therefore, that CEs can learn from CDCs. In the context of the...

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The Income Distribution in the UK: A Picture of Advantage and Disadvantage

Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This chapter describes the UK income distribution and how it has evolved over the last 50 years. It also includes some comparisons with the income distributions of other rich countries. Multiple perspectives on the distribution are provided: there is evidence about real income levels and...

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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...

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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...

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