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Top team demographics, innovation and business performance: findings from English firms and cities 2008-9
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
diversity and co-ethnic networks play? And do cities amplify or dampen these channels? I explore using a rich dataset of over 6 … (particularly big cities) may amplify any demographics-performance effects. I create a repeat cross-section of firms from the RDA … diverse' probably result from external constraints. Further tests for intervening effects of capital cities, metropolitan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125961
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126072
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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London
Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126076
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126145
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The urban wage growth premium: sorting or learning?
D'Costa, Sabine; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
sorting on the basis of unobservables we find no evidence of an urban wage growth premium. Experience in cities does have some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126184
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Cultural diversity, innovation and entrepreneurship: firm-level evidence from London
Lee, Neil; Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
A growing body of research is making links between diversity and the economic performance of cities and regions. Most … one of the world's major cities, with a rich cultural diversity that is widely seen as a social and economic asset. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126402
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Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts in London (interim report)
Fitzgerald, Amanda; Lupton, Ruth; Smyth, Ronan; Vizard, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Key Points: London local government has taken a 33 per cent real terms cut in service funding from central government between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Councils have been making strenuous efforts to make large savings without cutting front line services, and to protect services for those who need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126433
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Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts in London (interim report summary)
Fitzgerald, Amanda; Lupton, Ruth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Key Points: London local government has taken a 33 per cent real terms cut in service funding from central government between 2009/10 and 2013/14. Councils have been making strenuous efforts to make large savings without cutting front line services, and to protect services for those who need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126497
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The economics of density: evidence from the Berlin wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126549
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Immigrant diversity and economic development in cities: a critical review
Kemeny, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance. As distinct from the labor-supply focus of much of the economics of immigration, this paper reviews work that examines how growing heterogeneity in the composition of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126558