The phrase "a small negative effect on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or influence of one thing on another, particularly in contexts like research, analysis, or evaluations.
Example: "The new policy has a small negative effect on employee morale, leading to decreased productivity."
Alternatives: "a minor adverse impact on" or "a slight detrimental effect on".
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has concluded that "even a small negative effect" on the British economy from leaving the EU "would damage the public finances by more than that £8bn".
Taking this into account, the authors claim that between 1980 and 2000 immigration pushed down the wages of American high-school drop-outs by at most 0.4%.None of these studies is decisive, but taken together they suggest that immigration, in the long run, has had only a small negative effect on the pay of America's least skilled and even that is arguable.
Moreover, the results suggest a small negative effect on the employment rate of younger workers.
Stocking rate had a small negative effect on income variation overall which suggests that intensive grassland management may be associated with effective risk management.
While moving up the ladder led to no gains, moving to a lower ranking institution had a small negative effect on the physicist's impact.
Bassanini, Nunziata, and Venn (2009) find that mandatory dismissal regulations depress total factor productivity growth in industries where layoff restrictions are more likely to be binding, translating into a small negative effect on aggregate labor productivity growth.
Several studies have shown a small negative effect of migration on the wages of low-skilled workers in certain sectors in certain parts of the country, particularly care workers, shop assistants, and restaurant and bar workers.
A small negative effect of age on mean levels of SWB was found.
51 A meta-analysis only indicated a small negative effect of victimisation on mostly concurrent academic performance and the effects differed whether bullying was self-reported or by peers or teachers.
There was no difference in flower production for edge plants, but a small negative effect of TPS10 expression on flower production in center plants (F ) corresponding to the slight reduction in height of these plants (E ).
However, a recent study of mother infant dyads in a population with relatively lower levels of mercury exposure reported a small negative effect of increasing in utero mercury exposure on a visual recognition memory test at 6 months of age (Oken et al. 2005).
