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UK areas with stagnant wages are most anti-EU

23 June 2016

A feeling of anger and frustration with the European Union is strongest in areas of Britain that have seen wages stagnate in recent years, according to research commissioned by the Financial Times. Two leading labour market economists, Brian Bell and Stephen Machin, found a statistically significant link between wage growth, or the lack of it, and the proportion of the vote secured by the anti-EU UK Independence Party in the 2015 general election.

This article was published by the Financial Times on June 23, 2016
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Brian Bell and Stephen Machin CEP publications webpage

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Brian Bell webpage
Stephen Machin webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

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