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Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry

Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

. The example of the iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with …

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Is Poland the next Spain?

Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …

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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in …

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England and Wales: stable fertility and pronounced social status differences

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

For nearly three decades, the total fertility rate in England and Wales has remained high relative to other European countries, and stable at about 1.7 births per woman. In this chapter, we examine trends in both period and cohort fertility throughout the twentieth century, and demonstrate some...

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Unveiling vertical state downscaling: identity and/or the economy?

Costa-i-Font, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

to the debate on the formation of Europe, in that they reveal limits to regional redistribution and highlight the …

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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the European Union's (EU's) portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators across EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of...

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2000 families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of-migration study

Güveli, Ayşe; Ganzeboom, Harry; Baykara-Krumme, Helen; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Despite extensive recent advances in the empirical and theoretical study of migration, certain critical areas in the analysis of European migration remain relatively underdeveloped both theoretically and empirically. Specifically, we lack studies that both incorporate an origin comparison and...

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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper discusses recent developments in the literature on local and regional innovative performance to show how an ‘integrated’ conceptual framework based on the cross-fertilization of different theories can serve as a foundation for the comparative analysis of territorial innovation...

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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators across EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data....

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Scylla and Charybdis: the European economy and Poland's adherence to gold, 1928-1936

Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

across Europe. I show that the pattern of exit from gold can be understood in terms of variation in factors commonly …

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