Outputs (11)

Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour (2024)
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Upward, R., & Wright, P. W. (2024). Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour. Journal of Public Economics, 239, Article 105253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105253

We provide new evidence on the effects of economic shocks on political support, voting behaviour and political opinions over the last 25 years in the UK. We exploit a sudden, large and long-lasting shock in the form of job loss and trace out its imp... Read More about Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour.

Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement (2023)
Journal Article
Albornoz, F., Contreras, D., & Upward, R. (2023). Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement. Economics of Education Review, 94, Article 102375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102375

We explore the effectiveness of repeating the student-teacher match on test scores, for the universe of 8th graders in Chile using information on all student-teacher matches across multiple subjects and years, and a national, anonymous measure of tes... Read More about Let's stay together: The effects of repeat student-teacher matches on academic achievement.

Social comparisons in job search (2019)
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Fu, J., Sefton, M., & Upward, R. (2019). Social comparisons in job search. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 168, 338-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.10.013

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Using a laboratory experiment we examine how social comparisons affect behavior in a sequential search task. In a control treatment subjects search in isolation, while in two other treatments subjects get feedback on the search d... Read More about Social comparisons in job search.

Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market (2017)
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Upward, R., & Wright, P. (2019). Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market. Economica, 86(341), 166-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12254

We estimate the earnings, hours and income effects of job loss for a representative sample of UK workers from 1991–2007. We follow workers before and after job loss, regardless of their labour market state, and we match displaced workers with similar... Read More about Don't look down: the consequences of job loss in a flexible labour market.

Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese textile exports to the U.S. (2017)
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Bernhofen, D. M., Upward, R., & Wang, Z. (2018). Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese textile exports to the U.S. World Economy, 41(11), 2983-3000. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12581

The elimination of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 provides an unusual opportunity to examine the effects of a trade policy shock on export prices and firm behaviour. It was massive in scale, discrete in timing and exogenous to firms and co... Read More about Quantity restrictions and price adjustment of Chinese textile exports to the U.S..

Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers (2017)
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El-Sahli, Z., & Upward, R. (in press). Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 55(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12224

We investigate how individual workers and local labour markets adjust over a long time period to a discrete and plausibly exogenous technological shock, namely the introduction of containerisation in the UK port industry. This technology, which was... Read More about Off the waterfront: the long-run impact of technological change on dock workers.

Job and worker turnover in German establishments (2017)
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Bellmann, L., Gerner, H.-D., & Upward, R. (2018). Job and worker turnover in German establishments. Manchester School, 86(4), 417-445. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12187

We use a simple non-parametric regression approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993--2014. Although it is often claimed that firms in Europe... Read More about Job and worker turnover in German establishments.

Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence (2017)
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Andrews, M., Schank, T., & Upward, R. (2017). Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence. World Economy, 40(9), 1750-1774. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12486

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms' trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour. We identif... Read More about Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence.

Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: evidence from Chinese exports to the US (2016)
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Upward, R., & Wang, Z. (2016). Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: evidence from Chinese exports to the US. Economics Letters, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.04.025

We study how Chinese textile and clothing firms adjusted the product structure of their exports to the US, as triggered by the termination of Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas. We find that the removal of MFA quotas induced firms to expand their pr... Read More about Quota restrictions and intra-firm reallocations: evidence from Chinese exports to the US.

More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours (2014)
Journal Article
Andrews, M., Gerner, H.-D., Schank, T., & Upward, R. (2014). More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours. Oxford Economic Papers, 67(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpu026

Increases in standard hours of work have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due to reduced costs. Moreover, the response of... Read More about More hours, more jobs? The employment effects of longer working hours.