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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126072
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Research and development, spillovers, innovation systems, and the genesis of regional growth in Europe
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the …Research on the impact of innovation on regional economic performance in Europe has fundamentally followed three …) the study of the existence and efficiency of regional innovation systems; and (3) the examination of the geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071557
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Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance
Hall, Emma; Propper, Carol; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Labor market regulation can have harmful unintended consequences. In many markets, especially for public sector workers, pay is regulated to be the same for individuals across heterogeneous geographical labor markets. We would predict that this will mean labor supply problems and potential falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071441
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We build on cross-national research to examine the relationships underlying estimates of relative intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain using harmonized longitudinal data and focusing on men. We examine several pathways by which parental status is related to offspring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196
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Has ICT polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years
Michaels, Guy; Natraj, Ashwini; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) “polarize” labor markets, by increasing demand for the highly educated at the expense of the middle educated, with little effect on low-educated workers. Using data on the US, Japan, and nine European countries from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234814
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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus
Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206867
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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries are narrowly defined. So there is a significant opportunity for the least productive firms to catch up to the most productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744856
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Neighbourhood effects in small neighbourhoods
Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper uses data on a sample of Australian teenagers to test for neighbourhood effects on school dropout rates. The data allows us to test for neighbourhood effects at two different spatial scales. We find that educational composition of the larger neighbourhood can influence the dropout...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744881
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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744921