We examine wage returns to geographic mobility in Spain, a country that traditionally experienced limited mobility despite substantial regional variation on unemployment and wages. We find that wage returns are modest on average -around 2% -however, there is substantial heterogeneity with some groups experiencing losses. Wage gains associated with return...
Presented by: Silvia Avram (University of Essex)
Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)
We examine the long-term effects of early childcare using administrative data from Barcelona. In oversubscribed public childcare centers, seats are allocated by lottery among applicants with identical priority scores, generating random variation in access. We exploit this design to estimate the causal effect of admission to childcare before age three...
Presented by: Gabriel Facchini (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Venue: SSRC416 (2N2.4.16)
Venue: Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
British Chambers of Commerce new research, with our ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, looks at the use of AI in the workplace