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This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in … findings show that migration in the UK declined after the Brexit referendum, even before any policy change …
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In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UKâ s hugely significant referendum on EU membership that was held in June 2016. These are, (i) whether leave voters at the referendum subsequently regretted their choice (in the light of the result), (ii) whether non-voters...
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We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...
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This paper is the first attempt to study the causal impact of "Brexit", namely the UK's departure from the European … others. These findings carry important implications for post-Brexit UK and for other European countries with emerging calls …
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This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...
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wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a …. The initial positive subjective wellbeing effect of the Brexit vote was particularly pronounced for male and older … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration …. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review studies which attempt to estimate both the impact on future migration …
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This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
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We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...
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This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...
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