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Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England
There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. Low-pay work tends to be undertaken more locally but no empirical analysis has focused on how local opportunities alter prospects. Using Understanding Society data for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6853294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31721776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224290 |
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description | There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. Low-pay work tends to be undertaken more locally but no empirical analysis has focused on how local opportunities alter prospects. Using Understanding Society data for England matched with local unemployment rates, we estimate dynamic random effects panel models, which show robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is lower for those who are currently on low pay compared to those who are currently unemployed. The low-paid also have a higher chance than the unemployed of becoming higher-paid. These findings are most marked in neighbourhoods with high unemployment. |
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spelling | pubmed-68532942019-11-22 Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England Plum, Alexander Knies, Gundi PLoS One Research Article There is considerable debate on whether the employment and earnings prospects are better for those on low pay or for the unemployed. Low-pay work tends to be undertaken more locally but no empirical analysis has focused on how local opportunities alter prospects. Using Understanding Society data for England matched with local unemployment rates, we estimate dynamic random effects panel models, which show robust evidence that the future unemployment risk is lower for those who are currently on low pay compared to those who are currently unemployed. The low-paid also have a higher chance than the unemployed of becoming higher-paid. These findings are most marked in neighbourhoods with high unemployment. Public Library of Science 2019-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6853294/ /pubmed/31721776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224290 Text en © 2019 Plum, Knies http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Plum, Alexander Knies, Gundi Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title | Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title_full | Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title_fullStr | Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title_full_unstemmed | Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title_short | Local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: Evidence from England |
title_sort | local unemployment changes the springboard effect of low pay: evidence from england |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6853294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31721776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224290 |
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