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Evaluating the effects of planning policies on the retail sector: or do town centre first policies deliver the goods?
Cheshire, Paul; Hilber, Christian A. L.; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Few studies conceive of land as a productive factor but British land use policies may lower total factor productivity … unique store-specific data to estimate the impact of space on retail productivity and the specific effects of planning … that TFP rises with store size and that planning policy directly reduces productivity both by reducing store sizes and …
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The political economy of inclusive rural growth
Carter, Michael; Morrow, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
risk may thereby sustain higher productivity through public good provision. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126587
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Political credit cycles: the case of the Euro zone
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Garicano, Luis; Santos, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We study the mechanisms through which the adoption of the Euro delayed, rather than advanced, economic reforms in the Euro zone periphery and led to the deterioration of important institutions in these countries. We show that the abandonment of the reform process and the institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126656
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Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain
Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper summarizes inequalities in PC ownership using data from the US Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and the British General Household Survey (GHS) for the period 1984-98. Between 1988 and 1994, British households were more likely than US households to own a personal computer (PC). After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744812
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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744988
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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e.g. Dustmann, Fabbri and Preston, 2005) have failed to find any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745253
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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy to improve their poor employment performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745346
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What are the long-term effects of UI? Evidence from the UK JSA reform
Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both administrative and labor force survey data. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745531
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Office space supply restrictions in Britain: the political economy of market revenge
Cheshire, Paul; Hilber, Christian A.L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745655
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Office space supply restrictions in Britain: the political economy of market revenge
Cheshire, Paul; Hilber, Christian A.L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British office locations from 1961 to 2005. These are orders of magnitude greater than estimates for Manhattan condominiums or office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745742