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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on …
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Do remote workers deter neighborhood crime? : evidence from the rise of working from home
Matheson, Jesse; McConnell, Brendon; Rockey, James; … - 2024
In this paper, we provide the first evidence of the effect of the shift to remote work on crime. We examine the impact … of the rise of working from home (WFH) on neighborhood-level burglary rates, exploiting geographically granular crime … can entirely offset the crime-reducing benefit of a given neighborhood's WFH potential. This is consistent with the …
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None for the road? : stricter drink driving laws and road accidents
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan G. - 2021
Reducing drink drive limits is generally regarded an effective strategy to save lives on the road. Using several new administrative data sources, we evaluate the effect of a stricter limit introduced in Scotland in 2014. This reduction had no effect on drink driving and road collisions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581336
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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war
Edo, Anthony - 2017
This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701511
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Brexit - balancing trade and mobility
Forslid, Rikard; Nyberg, Sten - 2017
Control over borders and access to the common market are key issues in the Brexit negotiations. We explore a sequential model, where the UK can commit to mobility, and the EU may constrain trade to dissuade future secession, or to punish the UK. The model highlights the importance of whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011745298
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Cousins from overseas : the labour market impact of a major forced return migration shock
Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022
We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383605
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The cost of binge drinking
Francesconi, Marco; James, Jonathan - 2015
We estimate the effect of binge drinking on accident and emergency attendances, road accidents, arrests, and the number of police officers on duty using a variety of unique data from Britain and a two-sample minimum distance estimation procedure. Our estimates, which reveal sizeable effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479918
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration : does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488997
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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024
This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470430
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments … to the US. -- Migration ; immigration policy ; education ; employment ; wages ; brain drain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831