Explaining trends in UK immigration

Explaining attitudes towards immigration : is there an “ immigration surplus ” ?

Why is there such wide-spread opposition to immigration, although attitudes are generally favorable towards trade? Using concepts from population ethics, this paper shows that impartial observers oppose unskilled immigration if they are inequality-averse, base their decisions on national interest, and have an integrative view of immigration. Moreover, unskilled immigration makes redistribution ...

Immigration and House Prices in the UK

Immigration and House Prices in the UK This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the mobility response of the native population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage distrib...

Explaining Trends in Car Use

Explaining Trends in Household Spending

In this paper we model the changing distribution of household spending in the UK over the period 1978 to 1999 and explore the interpretation of remaining time trends in spending once changes in other observed covariates have been accounted for. Acknowledgements This research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust research programme into ‘The changing distribution of consumption, economic resources ...

Explaining Trends in EU Interregionalism

It is standard fare in political science or political economy to characterize the nature of political and economic systems in the aftermath of some critical juncture – such as the “postwar era,” the “post-Cold War era,” “postSeptember 11,” and the like. Analyses that highlight these critical junctures all face the same questions: do we know yet whether this juncture was in fact critical? Even i...